 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...fann'd. Some o'er her lap their careful plumes display'd, Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Soothe every gust of passion into peace ; All but the swellings of the soften'd heart. That Sfnl up in vapors to the baron's, brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. Ah cease, rash youth... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...Latin poems. The turn of the game is raising exultation in the nymph, when coffee is brought in — Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. Ah, cease, rash youth... | |
 | World - 1877 - 456 pages
...least in fashionable society, as we find from Pope's well-known lines in the " Rape of the Lock." " Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes." For at least half a century Arabia, which now furnishes less than one two-hundredth part of what is... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...Quarterly lïcrieir iApril, ItilS] charged the first with aspiring to be the " hierophant '' of it. Coffee. — COFFEE, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half -shut eyes. POPE, Пape of thf Lock. Cogitation. — His cogitative faculties immers'd In cogibundity... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...POPE. These, in two sable ringlets taught to break, Once gave new beauties to the snowy neck. POPE. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain. POPE. Ev'n then, before... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pages
...hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. Canto iii. Line 21. Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half -shut eyes. Canto iii. Line 117. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head,... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...fanned, Some o'er her lap their careful plumes displayed, Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his halfshut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. Ah, cease, rash youth... | |
 | 1880 - 976 pages
...bla/c; From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: m the Lord Who heaven and earth hath made. Thy foot he'll not let elide, nor will lie slumbe The fragrant cups were passed, it is very possible, by some negro footman, for slavery early found... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1880 - 558 pages
...Some o'er her lap their careful plumes displayed, Trembling and conscious of the rich brocade. Cuffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain. Ah ! cease, rash youth... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...fanned, Some o'er her lap their careful plumes displayed, Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade. Coffee (which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes), Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. . . . Just then,... | |
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At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Straight hover round the fair her airy band; Some, as she... 
