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" Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting... "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Page 291
by Alexander Pope - 1824
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) " Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe ! Thou by some other shall be laid as low ; Nor think...
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 pages
...great-great-grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal rings : which sifter, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's...she jingled, and the whistle blew : Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, Which long she wore and now Belinda wears). Ibid. Canto v. 87. Though ridicule,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...great-great-grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's...she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cried),...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...great great grand-sire wore about his neck, 90 In three seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's...she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ' Boast not my fall,' he cried,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...great grandsire wore about his neck, • go In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) "Boast not my fall" (he cry'd) "insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low, Nor think,...
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Formed a vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandam's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) " Boast not my fall," he cried....
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Notes and Queries

1871 - 704 pages
...relative to this clan. W. WINTERS. Waltham Abbey. BABIES' BELLS (4th S. vi. '475 ; vii. 21, 133. 201.)— "Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew." Ларе of the Lock, canto v. 93. WJ BERNHARD SMITH. Temple. LETTER FROM OLITEK CROMWELL, 1655 (4"1...
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...great-great-grandsire wore about his neck, 73o In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown ; Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she gingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, 735 Which long she wore,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...seal-rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandamc's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew ; 1 ' Mxandcr : ' see Ovid. > Then in a bodkin graced her mother's hairs, 95 Which long she wore, and...
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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...great, great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal rings ; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown : Her infant grandame's...hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.)" I do not know how far Pope was indebted for the original idea, or the delightful execution of this...
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