 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...lords had wit : The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, WO And not a mask went unimproved away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more. And virgins smiled at what they blush'd before. The following licence of a foreign reign, Did all tho dregs of bold Socinus drain ;... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 pages
...has described, " The fair sat pouting at the courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away : The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before," were not too coy to be pleased with the fop's attentions, and replied in like strain. The players were... | |
 | 1865 - 854 pages
...c., ¡ we cannot wonder that the fan should have been | indispensable to a lady going into company. It was | held up to shield the countenance when anything...The modest fa,n was lifted up no more, And virgins sniiled at what they blushed before. Steele, in a paper in the Tatler, No. 52, August 9, 1709, gives... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...had wit ; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, (62) 8*0 And not a mask went unimproved away; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before. The following license of a foreign reign (63) Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain; (64) 345 343.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1866 - 528 pages
...well-known lines : — " The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, , And not a Mask went unimproved away; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before." ' A putoral, by John Fletcher. 14th. '(Lord's day.) I did give my wife 40«. to carry into the country... | |
 | 1883 - 494 pages
...shocking far female ears was uttered. Pope makes an allusion to the discontinuance of the fashion : " The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before.1* During the same centnry, at balls held hi London and elsewhere, gentlemen selected their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...lords had wit : The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, 540 And not a mask went unimproved away :* The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blush'd before. The following licence of a foreign reignt Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...young lords had wit: The fair sat panting at a courtier's play,. And not a mask went unimproved away: The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blush'd before. The following licence of a foreign reign Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain; Then... | |
 | 1868 - 856 pages
...18th c., we cannot wonder that the fan should have been indispensable to a lady going into company. It was held up to shield the countenance when anything...what they blushed before. Steele, in a paper in the Taller, No. 52, August 9, 1709, gives an amusing account of Delamira, a fine lady, resigning her fan... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1872 - 462 pages
...by Pope, thus :— The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before. The fashion of wearing masks did not disappear until after the beginning of the eighteenth century.... | |
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Seldom at council, never in a war, Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away; The modest fan was lifted up no more,... 
