She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks,
Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks.
She went from op'ra, park, assembly, play,
To morning-walks, and prayers three hours a day.


'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation [of King George I, 1715]' (1717)

Alexander Pope Quotes

She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks, Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks. She went from op'ra, park, assembly, play, To...

She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks, Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks. She went from op'ra, park, assembly, play, To...

She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks, Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks. She went from op'ra, park, assembly, play, To...

She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks, Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks. She went from op'ra, park, assembly, play, To...