 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court ; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 15 At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing,... | |
 | Scotland - 1822 - 828 pages
...science of quizzing should be so well practised by him for the gratification of her private ear that, * " At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan,...chat , With singing, laughing, ogling and all that." Yet you will find that my ballad does not even aspire so high as this in description ; it is but the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instructive hours they past; cies' letter, With an order for the chaplain aforesaid,...him, a better; And then your poor petitioner, both supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, nnd all thnt. Meanwhile, declining from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court ; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 15 At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court ; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 15 At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court : In various talk the instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last : One speaks...At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...instructive hours they pass'd, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of a British queen, And one describes a charming Indian...At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. At Ombre singly to decide... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a eourt ; In various talk th' instruetive hours they past ; deseribes a eharming Indian sereen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...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 speaks...At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from... | |
 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson, Charles White - 1826 - 366 pages
...considerable time. CHAPTER III. A FEMALE COTERIE. " In various talk, th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, At every word a reputation dies; Snuff, or the fan, supply the place of chat,... | |
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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. 
