 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 - Page 209by Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...resort, Ч To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk the 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 н charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and... | |
 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - Almack's, London - 1827 - 370 pages
...some considerable time. CHAPTER III. A FEMALE COTERIE. " In various talk, tli ' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ;...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,... | |
 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson, Charles White - Almack's, London - 1827 - 630 pages
...various talk, th' instructive honrs they pasl^ Who gave the ball, or paid the vi-ii last ; One spenks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motion, looks, and eye*, At every word a reputation dies ; Snuff, orlhc fan, supply the place of chat,... | |
 | Charles White - English fiction - 1827 - 616 pages
...tlie British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian sereen ; A third interprets motion, looks, aad eyes, At every word a reputation dies ; Snuff, or the fan, supply the place of chat, With singing, laughirg, ogling, and all that." POPE. How well Pope knew the sex... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speakc the glory of the Britirh queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen;...At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supplies each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Ca «'o Hi. ° F Tf K LOCK.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...themselves, are settled in those interjacent tracts, as a screen against the insults of the savages. Suift. One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen. Pope. SCREW, ns Fr. escrow; Belg. scroeve. One of the mechanical powers, of which there are two kinds,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk the instructive hours they pass'd, th gloomy a British queen, And one describee a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...at a ball ; Or whether heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall. RAPE or 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 rend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; 10 In various talk the instructive hours they pass'd, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks...queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen -f A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 15 At every word a reputation dies. SmifF, or the... | |
| |
