 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...perish all !* She said ; then raging to sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious bain (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 devtil Z ds ! damn the lock... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...the last two examples, the following delineation of a fop : " Sir Plume (of amber snuff-box iustlv vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane), With...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... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1860 - 440 pages
...THE RAPE OP THE LOCK." Sir Plume demands the restoration of the lock. " (Sir Plume of amber snuff box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane)...earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff box open'd, then the case. ****** It grieves me much (replied the Peer again) Who speaks so well,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...represented as holding the lock of hair in his hand. Sir Plume — the round-faced and insignificant Sir Plume, Of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane," — As this little story was intended to be viewed on gold, the figures in the copy are not reversed,... | |
 | Henry William Bristow - 1861 - 510 pages
...extravagant prices. In other countries the orange-yellow transparent variety is decidedly preferred. ", Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded« cane :" POP«, Rape ojthe iMck. In the Museum of Mineralogy in Paris there is the handle of a cane made... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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!... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1863 - 512 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...! ' 120 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 ! d — the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...all!" no She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs1, 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!... | |
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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... 
