Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 nice conduct of a clouded cane... "
The Paisley magazine Vol 1 - Page 225
Full view - About this book

Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, Volumes 3-4

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - 1852 - 560 pages
...to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the ravish' d hairs, Sir Plume (of amber snuff- box justly vain , And the nice conduct of a clouded cane)...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!...
Full view - About this book

Vermischte Schriften, Volume 2

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - 1852 - 566 pages
...raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the ramsh'd hairs, Sir Plume (of amber snuff- box justly vain , And the nice conduct of a clouded cane)...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 — ils! damn the lock!...
Full view - About this book

A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...grown; Judge-like thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign, The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden. Sir Plume of amber snuff-box, justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope. And the sweet liquor on the cane bestow, From which prepared the luscious sugars flow. Blackmore....
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...all ! " She said ; then raging to Sir Plume 1 repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, of amber snuffbox justly vain, And the...eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — " My lord, why, what the devil! Z — ds! damn the lock!...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Volume 5

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 314 pages
...cane. Has not Mr. Pope our great poet of fashion, given you the nicest instructions in that art ? ' Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.' The cane does not conduct you ; you conduct the cane. Thus, with a debonnair swing. Now, t'other hand...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...' 120 She said ; then raging to Sir Plume 1 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...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...120 She said ; then raging to Sir Plume l repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : ir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice...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!...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, (of amber snufl-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,)...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! d the lock!...
Full view - About this book

The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...the humorous, take, as a contrast to the last two examples, the following delineation of a fop : " 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...
Full view - About this book

Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and ...

Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 pages
...Rape of the Lock notes the use of the Snuff-box as a luxurious appendage to the ban ton '• — " Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case." This nobleman's habit of " tapping the box," in the pauses of his speech, is...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF