[Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Leave a comment on line 142 0 ¶ 143 Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Leave a comment on line 143 0 ¶ 144 Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. Leave a […]

[How vain are all these glories, all our pains, Leave a comment on line 15 0 ¶ 16 Unless good sense preserve what beauty gains:] Clarissa argues that beauty means very little without good sense and character. […]

[And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs; Leave a comment on line 122 0 ¶ 123 (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, Leave a comment on line 123 0 ¶ 124 And the nice conduct of a clouded cane) Leave a c […]

[Not youthful kings in battle seiz’d alive, Leave a comment on line 3 0 ¶ 4 Not scornful virgins who their charms survive, Leave a comment on line 4 0 ¶ 5 Not ardent lovers robb’d of all their bliss, Leave a comme […]

[(The victory cry’d) the glorious Prize is mine!] After cutting the lock, the Baron talks about his “glorious prize” as if he has accomplished something historically important. He even compares the lasting […]

[Too soon dejected, and too soon elate. Leave a comment on line 102 0 ¶ 103 Sudden, these honours shall be snatch’d away, Leave a comment on line 103 0 ¶ 104 And curs’d for ever this victorious day. Leave a comme […]

[To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, Leave a comment on line 117 0 ¶ 118 We trust th’ important charge, the Petticoat: Leave a comment on line 118 0 ¶ 119 Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fai […]

[Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, Leave a comment on line 23 0 ¶ 24 And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. Leave a comment on line 24 1 ¶ 25 With hairy springes we the birds betray, Leave a c […]

[Th’ inferior Priestess, at her altar’s side, Leave a comment on line 127 0 ¶ 128 Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride.] What isn’t clear to me is what Pope means by calling Belinda’s beauty routine the […]

[ Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.] What isn’t clear to me is why Pope says that the Sylphs can “assume what sexes and what shapes they please (lines 69-70). I understand that the Sylphs are […]

In lines 28 through 32, Montagu repeats the phrase “For me” at the beginning of several lines. This repetition shows how many different people were affected by Flavia’s beauty and helps emphasize how important her […]

[‘No borrow’d lustre can my charms restore; Leave a comment on line 53 0 ¶ 54 ‘Beauty is fled, and dress is now no more!] Montagu repeats the idea that beauty is “no more” throughout the poem. This repeti […]

[Ah! faithless glass, my wonted bloom restore; Leave a comment on line 13 0 ¶ 14 ‘Alas! I rave, that bloom is now no more!] Montagu personifies the mirror by calling it a “faithless glass.” This makes the mi […]

[In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages.] Gulliver ends the Brobdingnag section by calling his time there “unfortunate” showing how shocked he is still about living among […]

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people,] Gulliver is so used to the gigantic scale of Brobdingnag that […]

[or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound] Gulliver criticizes travel writing for inventing “barbarous customs and idolatry”, yet he himself has spent the entire […]

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 12 1 I could force nothing on him but a footman’s tooth, which I observed him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it.] Gulliver’s souvenirs are a […]

[I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.] This moment is the turning point of the paragraph as […]

[“that his suspicions were much increased by some very absurd speeches I had delivered at first to his sailors, and afterwards to himself, in relation to my closet or chest, as well as by my odd looks and b […]

[And, indeed, I was glad not to have been a spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident it would have sensibly touched me, by bringing former passages into my mind, which I would rather have […]