| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...her solitary tea ; Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that rs the... | |
| William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1880 - 274 pages
...spill her solitary tea; Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way... | |
| William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1880 - 264 pages
...spill her solitary tea; Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coil'ee trine with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact nt noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after seven, There atarve and pray, for that's the way... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...\vi.\l reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon, Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire, TTp to her godly garret after seven, There starve, and pray, for that's the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon: Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after seven, There starve and pray, for that's the way... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...her solitary tea; Or -o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; 20 Up to her godly garret after sev"n, There starve and pray, for that's the... | |
| Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...spill her solitary tea; Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way... | |
| Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact nt noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to tho squire ; Up to her godly garret after seven. There starve and pray, for that's tho way... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...her solitary tea; Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, ะป There starve and pray, for that 's the... | |
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