 Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.  Wit and Humor - Strona 209autor: Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 261Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - Liczba stron: 316
...awhile the pleasures of a court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the hall, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one descrihes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 15 At ev'ry word a... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - Liczba stron: 328
...awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk the' instructive hours they past, Who gave the hall, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the...Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singiag, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Liczba stron: 334
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk the' instructive hours they patt, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Smiff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Mrau while,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Liczba stron: 702
...nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instrnctive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of a British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Liczba stron: 604
...resort, To ia«ic awhile the pleasures <if a court ; Invariom talk the instructive hours they pass'd, us Llill put hi his modest plea,— " Let favor speak...for me."— For who, like him, his\ark>us powers ev'ry word n reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat ; With singing, laughing,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 536
...resort, To taste- awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instructive hours they past, 1 1 Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes j At every word « reputation dies. SmifT, or the fan, supply vach pause of chat, With singing, laughing,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 546
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instructive hours they past, 1 1 Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...British queen, And one describes a charming Indian sereen j A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Liczba stron: 230
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of the court ; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One...screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; Ml At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - Liczba stron: 428
...necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. Rafle of the Lock, Canto ii. 101. One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen. Ibid. Canto iii. 13. Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror fend th'... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - Liczba stron: 418
...nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One...chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges... | |
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