| 1840 - 1078 pages
...Isaac, arid enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded "cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pages
...Isaac, and enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of... | |
| 1840 - 534 pages
...Isaac, and enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...all Ã" She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs. And bids her beaii demand the precious hairs: ou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the Karlh,...both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy g open'd, then the case. And thus broke out : — " My Lord, why, what the devil ? Z— ds! damn the... | |
| George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pages
...humorous, take, as a contrast to the two last examples, the following delineation of a fop : Sir Flume (of amber snuffbox justly vain, And the nice conduct...and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out, " My Lord, why, — what the devil ? Z — ds ! — damn... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. One of the most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Steele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habit... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...perish all !" She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out: — "My Lord, why, what the devil ? Z — ds! damn the Lock!... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. Oneofthe most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Sleele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habil... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. One of the most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Steele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habit... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. One of the most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, . And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Steele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habit... | |
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