 | 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.) ยป... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...three hours a day; To pass her time 'twixt reading and Bohea, 15 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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...aunts and croaking rooks, 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 slow clock and dine exact at noon. the eighteenth century was remarkable for a regular slide in the dinner hour. The slow and regular... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 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...at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, * Chinese black tea. Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...To muse, and spill her solitary Tea. Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon. Count the slow dock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures...stories to the squire: Up to her godly garret after sev'n. There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n. (lines 11-22) After this effective and... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 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...godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heaven. Some Squire, perhaps, you take a delight to rack; Whose game is Whisk, whose... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 248 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 slow clock, and dine exact at noon . . . Consider, to begin with, how the patterning of sound in the first line expresses the liveliness... | |
 | Christopher Breward - Art - 1995 - 270 pages
...croaking rooks . . . 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...in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the Squire.'7 By the late 1720s an emphasis on the modernity encapsulated in both country house and town... | |
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