 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...three hours a day $ To part the time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon."5 Isabella in Dryden's The Wild Gallant speaks the general sentiment : "He I marry must promise... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...three hours a day; To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the...godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heaven. 4376 Pope : Epis. to Miss Blount on leaving Town. Line 11, A time there was,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...three hours a day; To pass her time 'twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the...fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; 20 Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n. Some Squire,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, eeting year! \Vhat freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old POPE — Ep. to Miss Blount on Leaving Tmim. L. 13. 2 Let us (since life can little more supply Than... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 pages
...time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with a spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way to Heaven. Some squire, perhaps, you take delight to rack, Whose game is whisk, whose... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with her spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way to Heaven." (Epistle to Mrs Blount on her leaving the Town after the Coronation.) »... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...three hours a day : To part her time 'twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the...stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n. Some Squire, perhaps, you take delight... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...house, and who is doomed To part her time 'twist reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon. . . . Thus had Pope begun ; and he ends with the character of Chloe, and with the eulogy on Swift,... | |
 | English poetry - 1932 - 1210 pages
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twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon... 
