"Bespread" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Durer's rules, 240 Of all beau-kind the best proportion'd fools! Adjust their clothes, and to confession draw Those venial sins, an atom, or a straw; But oh! what terrors must distract the soul Convicted of that mortal crime, a hole; Or should one pound of powder less bespread Those monkey tails that wag behind their head. Thus finish'd, and corrected to a hair, They march, to prate their hour before the fair. So first to preach a white-gloved chaplain goes, 250 With band of lily, and with ...
— The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al |
