 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies. Snvff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and AU. THAT.* 0 thoughtless mortals, ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate ! For to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 Seiten
...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 ray : Ij^The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, I; And wretches hang that jurymen may dine ; The merchant... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 Seiten
...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... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1990 - 392 Seiten
..."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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 Seiten
...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]... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | 2005 - 276 Seiten
...Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. 5 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, 1 0 And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; From "The Rape... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
