 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 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 - English poetry - 1916 - 160 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; 20 Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 pages
...spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with a 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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with her 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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; 20 Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 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... | |
 | Christopher Breward - Art - 1995 - 270 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.'7 By the late 1720s an emphasis on the modernity encapsulated in both country... | |
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To muse, and 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,... 
