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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. "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 19
by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, 305 With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Mean while, declining from the noon of day, The sun...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan,...chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Mean while, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry Judges...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies ; Snuff or the fan supply each...chat With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. POPE : Rape of the Lock. O many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer never meant, And many...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply...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 from...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, lr»ks, and eyes ; At every loving mere folly ; Then, heigh-ho 1 the holly ! This life is most jolly! COME AW : The hungry judges soon the sentence sign. And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine ; The merchant...
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The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar ...

Bruce Redford - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...The Rape of the Lock: living in boudoir and salon, we are nudged by reminders of what lies outside. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Mean while, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry Judges...
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Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic

Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...Pope's own practice of setting time by the contemporaneous activity of judges and laborers: Mean while declining from the Noon of Day, The Sun obliquely shoots his burning Ray; The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And Wretches hang that Jury-Men may Dine; The Merchant from...
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...couplet from Pope's The Rape of the Lock, a colloquial ease that we might associate with urban savvy: Snuff, or the Fan, supply each Pause of Chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. But urban savvy can be sounded in many registers: Echoes from Pissing- Alley, Wfadwell] call, And 5^[adwell]...
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Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...world of serious affairs, of the world of business and law, an echo of the 'real' world:24 Mean while declining from the Noon of Day, The Sun obliquely shoots his burning Ray; The Hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign, And Wretches hang that Jury-men may Dine The Merchant from...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...queen. And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply...from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his buming ray; 20 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; The...
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