Note 191 — INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind. Carew: Think not 'cause men flattering say.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.—Howell: Letters, book ii. iv. (1621).
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. Dryden: Persius, satire v. line 246.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.—Pope: The Rape of the Lock, canto ii. line 27.
And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair. Bland: Anthology, p. 20 (edition 1813).