...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...sentence sign, And Wretches hang that Jury-Men may Dine; The Merchant from uY Exchange returns in Peace, And the long Labours of the Toilette cease. (Rape,...

...In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet See LITIGATION Trust Trust everybody, but cut the cards. Finley...

...precariously balanced between a highly artificial formality and a constantly encroaching vulgarity.' 74 eg: 'The hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign, / And Wretches hang that Jury-Men may Dine' (p. 170, cant. in, lines 21-2). Such lines make it apparent that the harmonious nature of this age...

..."old Age" (5, 20) threaten and where "Curl'd or uncurl'd ... Locks will turn to grey" (5, 26), and "hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign,/ And wretches hang that Jury-men may Dine" (3, 2 1-22). Pope is not oblivious to "the unaesthetic world of biological and domestic fact". But...

...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...Sentence sign, And Wretches hang that Jury-men may Dine The Merchant from th' Exchange returns in Peace, And the long Labours of the Toilette cease. (lll,...

...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. Meanwhile,...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...

...men were executed without qualms and with dispatch, normally after rapid and perfunctory proceedings: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.4 It was property that was worth a court's time. Like the law's haste in criminal cases, the law's...

...God I have run through a troop, and by God I will go through this death, and he will make it easy." 7 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "The Rape of the Lock," cto. 3, 1.21-2(1714). 8...

...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. Meanwhile,...of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; 20 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; The merchant...

...lay the old aside. 8913 To George, Lord Lyttelton Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. 8914 m of London, small and white and clean, The clea 8915 Imitations of Horace Our Gen'rals now, retired to their estates. Hang their old trophies o'er...