Explanations:

The inferior priestess at her atter’s side

Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.

Answer: These motes worthy and memorable lines have been quoted from the famous mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” which has been written by the voluminous poet and satirist Alexander Pope. Here the poet ridicules Belinda’s toilet and her mode of mending herself with cosmetics being assisted by Betty.

Belinda, the dominating character of “The Rape of the Lock” is a fashionable lady. She wakes up after twelve o’clock while it is broad daylight. Then she rings the bell thrice and Betty comes and takes her to the toilet. There Belinda mends her face with various types of cosmetics. Betty, the inferior priestess always stands by her and assists her in her makeup. Betty is so much careful and alert that she seems to be a worshiper who is very devotedly and with fear adorning an altar of some gods or goddesses.

Actually, through these lines, Alexander Pope has highlighted the mirror of the pretty and pleasure of seeing London life of the eighteenth century. Belinda represents the then-women folk who used to spend valuable hours in their dressing room only to make themselves attractive in the presence of the gallants.