 | William Cowper - 1882 - 628 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...chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours jThe sex whose presence civilizes ours. Thou art indeed the drug a gardener wants To poison vermin... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...more admire by far Thv naked beauties — Give me a cigar! q. BXBON— The Island. Canto II. St. 19. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly...banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours, r. COWPEB — Conversation. Line 251. OCCUPATIONS-TONSORIAL. 321 The pipe, with solemn interposing... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...ours. r. COWPXB — Conversation. Line 251. OCCUPATIONS-TOBACCONISTS. OCCUPATIONS— TONSORIAL. 321 s, he cards, nor frets. But to her mother nature all...her care she lets, o. SPESSEB— Faarie Queene. Bk. drowzy strain, Then pause, and puff and speak, and pause again. COWPZB — Conversation. Line 215.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...Conversation. Line 251. OCCUPATIONS— TONSORIAL. 321 Th« pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Mukes half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the drowzy strain. Then panse, and puff and speak, and pause again. COWPEB — Conversation. Line 245.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...own. Line 121. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can Line 193. Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly...banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. Line 201. I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume. Line 283.... | |
 | Alcoholic beverages - 1885 - 184 pages
...Poem, 8vo. 1724 DEACON, JOHN. Tobacco tortured, or the filthie Fume of Tobacco refined, 4to. 1616 " Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly...for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours." — Cowper. DECKER, THOMAS. The Bachelor's Banquet; or a Banquet for Bachelors : wherein is prepared... | |
 | Alcoholic beverages - 1885 - 164 pages
...or the filthie Fume of Tobacco refined, 4to. 1616 " Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoya, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect...for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours." — Cowper. DECKER, THOMAS. The Bacheler's Banquet; or a Banquet for Bachelors : wherein is prepared... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...of information meet : What neither yields us profit or delight Is like a nurse's lullaby at night. The pipe with solemn interposing puff Makes half a...admire, Important triflers, have more smoke than fire. The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose, In contact inconvenient, nose to nose, As if the gnomon... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 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...Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important trillers ! have more smoke than fire. . 250 Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...Line 121. A moral, sensihle, and well-hred man Will not affront me, — and no other can. Pernicions weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys : Thy worst effect is hanishing for honrs The sex whose presence civilizes onrs. I cannot talk with civet in the room, A... | |
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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... 
