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" She, while her Lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair Observes how much a Chintz exceeds Mohair. "
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and ... - Page 196
by Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1021 pages
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...or to be lov'd, She, while her Lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. 170 Forbid it, Heav'n! a favour or a debt She e'er should cancel! — but she may forget. Safe is your...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...or to be loved. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. 170 Forbid it heaven, a favour or a debt She e'er should cancel—but she may forget. Safe is your...
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The Dictionary of Love

Theocritus Junior - 2003 - 281 pages
...to be lov'd. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest ; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Forbid it heaven, a favor or a debt She e'er should cancel—but she may forget. Safe is your secret...
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W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...or to be loved. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Forbid it Heaven, a favour or a debt She e'er should cancel — but she may forget. Safe is your secret...
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Irish Furniture: Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to ...

Desmond FitzGerald Glin (Knight of), Desmond John Villiers Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Glin, James Peill - Antiques & Collectibles - 2007 - 352 pages
...the hair of the Angora goat. Alexander Pope referred to it IMoral Essays, Epistle IL lines 169-70): 'And when she sees her friend in deep despair, / Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair' (quoted in Beard, op. cit., p. 324). 70 FitzGerald (ed.), op. cit., pp. 158-9. 71 A rope-tied twin-branch...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...or to be lov'd. She, while her Lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her Friend in deep despair, Observes how much a Chintz exceeds Mohair ! 170 Forbid it Heav'n, a Favour or a Debt She e'er should cancel — but she may forget. Safe is your...
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Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives, Volume 39

Australia. Parliament - Australia - 1908 - 1426 pages
...of the use of mohair in a couplet by Pope, in the early part of the eighteenth century — And \vhcn she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. 3372 Bounties Bill. 3373 The Turkish Government attached so much value to the Angora goat that they...
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