 | William D'Avenant - 1872 - 456 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.... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1872 - 554 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...lords had wit ; 640 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 license of a foreign reign Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain; Then... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 878 pages
...op to shield the countenance when anything :••> shocking for female ears was uttered. Pope has a allusion to this use of the fan The modest fan was...more. And virgins smiled at what they blushed before. >t«k, in a paper in the Toiler, No. 52, August 9, lift), gives an amusing account of Delamira, a fine... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...lords had wit ; c 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 license of a foreign reign * Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1879 - 648 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." P. 242, 1. 3. TheDevil. — "In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr. Monpesson... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1879 - 670 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." P. 242, 1. 3. The Devil. — "In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr. Monpesson... | |
 | Lachlan Shaw - 1882 - 496 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 conduct of the clergy had a bad influence. When the Presbyterians ruled, they exercised... | |
 | 1883 - 842 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 too shocking for female ears was uttered. Горе has an allusion to this use of the fan : The modest fan was lifted up no more. And virgins... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1885 - 382 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." of late is become a great fashion among the ladies, which hides their whole face. So to the Exchange,... | |
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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,... 
