 | R. Bond - Railroad travel - 1865 - 232 pages
...regards them, the full development of the organ of destructiveness is strikingly exemplified. SMOKING. " The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough. The dozing aages drop the drowsy strain, Then panse and puff, and speak and pause again. Such often, like the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1866 - 720 pages
...lullaby at night, Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a tune enough; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff— and speak, and pause... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1868 - 246 pages
...ancient name of Amiens. 8. The first Pope who maintained a regular army. 9. A son of Priam. CLXXXVni. " THE pipe with solemn interposing puff Makes half a...Then pause and puff — and speak, and pause again. Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys ; Thou art, indeed,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. Conversation. Line 121. Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly...banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. Ibid. Line 251. And the tear that is wiped with a little address May be follow'd, perhaps, by a smile.... | |
 | 1868 - 848 pages
...use of this hurtful weed, and the language of Cowper in reference to it was aptly quoted, as follows: Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst etl'ect is banishing lor hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. Thou art, indeed, tlie drug a... | |
 | Oak apples, D Y - Double-crostics - 1868 - 94 pages
...passed not his unheeding eye.' 4. ' He supplied my want the more, As his unlikeness fitted mine.' 5. ' The pipe, with solemn, interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough.' 6. ' A lady . . . Whose very looks would melt a man.' 7. ' Eedeemer of dark centuries of shame.' 8.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 332 pages
...glory of our kind, And show the softest minds and fairest forms As little mercy as he grubs and worms? The pipe, with solemn interposing puff* Makes half a sentence at a time enough. They dare not wait the riotous abuse Thy thirst-creating steams at length produce, When wine has given... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1870 - 574 pages
...Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes lialf a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop...banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours ; Thon art indeed the drag a gardener wants To poison vermin that infest his plants ; But are we so... | |
 | E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...his paws inflame, and become diseased. Beasts for draught should have firm hoofs, not soft paws. ' The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...Important triflers— have more smoke than fire.' Some animal has been here. I see the print of four paws on the ground, and one of the two fore paws... | |
 | Harriette Noel-Thatcher - 1871 - 120 pages
...colloquy. What can be more desultory than the conversation carried on by a pair of gentleman smokers ? " The pipe with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers 1 have more smoke than fire." " Pernicious weed 1 whose scent the fair annoy, Unfriendly to Society's... | |
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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff— and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke... 
