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• Pope's ingenious critic, Mr. Warton, bestows judicious praise upon the art with which this poet, in the Rape of the Lock, has used many "periphrases and uncommon expressions," to avoid mentioning the name of scissars_, which would sound too vulgar for epic dignity--fatal engine, forfex, meeting-points, &c.; Though the metonymy of bread-earner for a shoeblack's knife may not equal these in elegance, it perhaps surpasses them in ingenuity I gives it him up to Lamprey in the bread-basket._[49 Homer is happy in his description of wounds, but this surpasses him in the characteristic choice of circumstance. —  Tales and Novels — Volume 04
• So is it with ‘Thrax’ a Thracian, and ‘Threx’ a gladiator; with ‘codex’ and ‘caudex’; ‘forfex’ and ‘forceps’; —  English Past and Present
• The peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide, —  Playful Poems
• He first expands the glitt'ring forfex wide 115 —  The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
• The Peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide, —  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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