... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. The Devil is an Ass - 第 209 頁Ben Jonson 著 - 1905 - 252 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| 1804 - 452 頁
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice, he closes with this royal COUNTER-BLAST : " It is a custom, loathsome to the EYE, hateful to the NOSE,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit, that is bottomless .'" II. Modern Geography, A Description of the... | |
| Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 516 頁
...discouraged the use of this vile weed. In train king James assured his subjects, that the smoking of it was a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dan* gerous to the lungs. Opposition made proselytes ; and the united influence of fashion and... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 頁
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." i Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the narcotic enjoyment of his pipe, when they reflect,... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 頁
...sentence of this extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...horrid Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the narcotic enjoyment of his pipe, when they reflect, that... | |
| sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 頁
...extraordinary composition is somewhat laughable. " The use of " tobacco," he says, " is a custom loathesome to the eye, " hateful to the nose, harmful to the...horrid Stygian smoke of the pit " that is bottomless/' * Few would wish to withhold from a Dutchman the narcotic enjoyment of his pipe, when they reflect,... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 頁
...unhealthiness and offensiveness of this practice,, he closes with this royal counter blast : — " It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless !" To conclude. . The moral, to be deduced from... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 510 頁
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the " Nose,...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, " neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless!" If even this small... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 508 頁
...fo" reign civil Nations, and by all Strangers that " come among you, to be scorned and contemned ; " a Custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the " Nose,...the " Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, *' neerest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of " the Pit that is bottomless /" If even this small... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 頁
...of tobacco." . ,; .... 0 .,• ..„,, ' The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 440 頁
...of her fair hand, a pipe of tobacco." The The king concludes with pronouncing the use of tobacco, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,...black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." It is impossible to give a better idea of the... | |
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