A pinch of snuff, anecdotes of snuff taking, with the moral and physical effects of snuff, by dean Snift of Brazen-nose |
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... scent the letter - box of Ovidius Naso ; and as to the Invidious , we would simply tickle , not wound , like spear - grass ; if we now and then tap the lid , not enough to moisten the eye ; if we act as rapper , we seek not to injure ...
... scent the letter - box of Ovidius Naso ; and as to the Invidious , we would simply tickle , not wound , like spear - grass ; if we now and then tap the lid , not enough to moisten the eye ; if we act as rapper , we seek not to injure ...
第 8 頁
... scented , would do more harm than good . We have not been able to trace an earlier date than 1620 , as the period when legitimate snuff - taking began to flourish , Louis XIV . , whose reign occupied so long a portion of time , had a ...
... scented , would do more harm than good . We have not been able to trace an earlier date than 1620 , as the period when legitimate snuff - taking began to flourish , Louis XIV . , whose reign occupied so long a portion of time , had a ...
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... scent , & c . The kinds of snuff , and their several names , are infinite ; and new ones are daily invented ; so that it would be difficult , not to say impossible , to give a detail of them . We shall only say , that there are three ...
... scent , & c . The kinds of snuff , and their several names , are infinite ; and new ones are daily invented ; so that it would be difficult , not to say impossible , to give a detail of them . We shall only say , that there are three ...
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... scent the contents of a sea - chest , and you have let it impregnate a quarter of an ounce in a nut - shell . Your indisposition is owing to the donkey , not the snuff . " There must be solace and inspiration in snuff : an Irish woman ...
... scent the contents of a sea - chest , and you have let it impregnate a quarter of an ounce in a nut - shell . Your indisposition is owing to the donkey , not the snuff . " There must be solace and inspiration in snuff : an Irish woman ...
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... scented , Combed and frizzled both up and down ; And nothing of barber's art was wanted , To make it fit for a counsellor's crown . Next , my gown , so thin and tattered , It once was new , and well to wear ; Tho ' now ' tis rent , and ...
... scented , Combed and frizzled both up and down ; And nothing of barber's art was wanted , To make it fit for a counsellor's crown . Next , my gown , so thin and tattered , It once was new , and well to wear ; Tho ' now ' tis rent , and ...
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第 15 頁 - The gnomes direct, to every atom just, The pungent grains of titillating dust. Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose. " Now meet thy fate," incens'd Belinda cried, And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
第 14 頁 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See, fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor feared the chief the unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
第 100 頁 - Acme, enflam'd with what he said, Rear'd her gently-bending head, And her purple mouth with joy, Stretching to the delicious Boy, Twice (and twice could scarce suffice) She...
第 79 頁 - Some time since a gentleman sent his box to a •working jeweller for repair ; the embossed frame which surrounded the lid had become loose. The box was of silver, plain in its shape, but ornamented on the top with a group of figures, somewhat after the manner of Watteau, engraved upon the plate. " Upon removing the border, it was found necessary to take the upper part of the box entirely to pieces. While minutely inspecting the landscape and figures, the jeweller perceived, at the edge of the plate,...
第 100 頁 - Bow'd, and blest the augury. This good omen thus from heaven Like a happy signal given, Their loves and lives (all four) embrace, And hand in hand run all the race.
第 43 頁 - KNOWS he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joys Which my nose knows? 0 Nose, I am as proud of thee As any mountain of its snows, 1 gaze on thee, and feel that pride A Roman knows ! Albert A.
第 147 頁 - Lady, reject the gift,' &c. and produced in a few minutes the following parody on it: 'Lady, accept the box a hero wore, In spite of all this elegiac stuff: Let not seven stanzas written by a bore, Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff...
第 43 頁 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
第 58 頁 - S you plural make, But if you add an S to this Strange is the metamorphosis ! Plural is plural then no more, And sweet what bitter was before.
第 116 頁 - And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each...