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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第 1 頁
... wish to be clear in every respect . They vainly seek to prove a practice clean who write on it in an impure style . There are certain bitter and dirty words , as well as im- modest allusions , in a competitor - volume , which will ...
... wish to be clear in every respect . They vainly seek to prove a practice clean who write on it in an impure style . There are certain bitter and dirty words , as well as im- modest allusions , in a competitor - volume , which will ...
第 53 頁
... wishes of the customers are carried into effect by one of the most extraordinary charac- ters in London . We must take an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this singular person- age ; albeit , his residence is so near to Fleet ...
... wishes of the customers are carried into effect by one of the most extraordinary charac- ters in London . We must take an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this singular person- age ; albeit , his residence is so near to Fleet ...
第 64 頁
... wish for a box adorned by some British subject ; for instance , a fox - hunt , after one of Alkin's popular plates . The Cap- tain offered to take out the engraving ; sure that his artist would execute the order with the most implicit ...
... wish for a box adorned by some British subject ; for instance , a fox - hunt , after one of Alkin's popular plates . The Cap- tain offered to take out the engraving ; sure that his artist would execute the order with the most implicit ...
第 78 頁
... wish she had chosen any thing but a snuff - box , I have such a collection already . I suppose people think it right to send me boxes , because I never take snuff . I wish it had been a Meerschaum , or a Hookah ; because I do love ...
... wish she had chosen any thing but a snuff - box , I have such a collection already . I suppose people think it right to send me boxes , because I never take snuff . I wish it had been a Meerschaum , or a Hookah ; because I do love ...
第 98 頁
... wish her some stu- pendous recompense , proportionate , if possible , to the delicate , prompt , gratuitous bounty , which made her Grecian profile prove its pity for my clumsy feature . " This thankful and reverend youth may some day ...
... wish her some stu- pendous recompense , proportionate , if possible , to the delicate , prompt , gratuitous bounty , which made her Grecian profile prove its pity for my clumsy feature . " This thankful and reverend youth may some day ...
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admirable amongst assert called Carotte cigars comic confess Covent Garden dear depôt Duke Duke of Gloucester DUKE OF ORLEANS dust enjoy eyes fair favourite fingers flavour Fleet Street Fribourg and Treyer gallant gentleman George IV gold Grace grains hand head headache Hibernian honour Hookah hope Irish jars Jesuits John Kemble known lady late laughed Lawrence Kirk look Lord LOUIS XVIII Lundy Foot's Majesty manufactured Martinique Meerschaum Messrs mixture Monsieur mull Napoleon never nose nostrils odour once ornamented paper Paris person pinch of snuff PINCH-OF Pitt plain PONTET popular possess pound weight pounds present prove purchased quantity Rappee remember replied royal scented Scotch seen Shakspere silver smoked sneezing snuff-box snuff-taker snuffed snuffers song soul Street sure Tabatiere take snuff taker taste thing thumb tobacco tobacconist took a pinch took snuff vended whilst
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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...