 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.  Rambles by Rivers: The Thames - Página 90por James Thorne - 1847Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 páginas
...sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste a while the pleasures of a court. In various talk th' instructive...they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last. 300 One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 páginas
...Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, , 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 páginas
...Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they passed, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 páginas
...Here thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes Tea. V,^/ Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...POPE. Gen'rous converse, a soul exempt from pride, And love to praise with reason on his side. POPE. In various talk th' instructive hours they past; Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last. POPE. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks; But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. POPE.... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 páginas
...Only in the most baldly literal sense is this the world of the poem ('In various Talk th'instructive hours they past, / Who gave the Ball, or paid the Visit last'), since for Sylvia the rituals of society are simply the way life is, and Bell is just a girl like any... | |
 | Judy Jo Small - 1990 - 284 páginas
...paradox and wit. Among the examples Wimsatt quotes are these lines from Pope's "The Rape of the Lock": One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen. (162) This rhyme is intriguing not only because of its conventional phonic fit but also because of... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...home; Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; 10 In various talk the instructive hours they passed, Who gave a ball or paid the visit last; One speaks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...home; Here thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they passed, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last: One... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 páginas
...'purer'. Later in the poem the great and the good gather socially at the royal palace, Hampton Court: Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th'instructive hours they passed, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of... | |
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