 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes — At every word a reputation dies. Snuff or the fan supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that." Pope's letters too enable us to imagine the equally dull and less decent manners of her successors.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...call of night, The star of evening sheds his silver light High o'er yon western hill. GAY'S Dione. 4. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. POPE. 5. The sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with those isles of light So wildly,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...call of night, The star of evening sheds his silver light High o'er yon western hill. GAY'S Dione. 4. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. POPE. 5. The sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with those isles of light So wildly,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supplies each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling,...noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine ; The merchant... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing,...of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing,...of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing,...noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning my ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The mercliaut... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that." RAPE OF THE LOCK, CANTO HI. The last historical records of Hampton Court are thus connected with the... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 874 pages
...Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that." RAPE OP THE LOCR, CANTO III. The last historical records of Hampton Court are thus connected with the... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, tost, This drives them constant to a certain coast,...than all) the love of ease ; Through life 'tis fo : The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine ; The merchant... | |
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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 ev'ry word a reputation dies. 
