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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Affectation

There affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto IV. Line 31.

On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show.
Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto IV. Line 35.

By giving sixty five’s pale wither’d mien,
The blooming roses of sixteen.
Wolcot.—The Romish Priest.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 200.