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" He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff... "
Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes - Page 446
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790
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Trials of Domestic Life, Volume 1

Anna Eliza Bray, Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1848 - 320 pages
...Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home, lie was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon he gave his nose, Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff—and still he smiled and talked....
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...Showed like a stubble land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner; 5 And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which, ever and anon, He gave his nose And still he smiled and talked : And, as the soldiers bare dead bodies by, 10 He called them "...
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The Standard elocutionist; and gem-book of British authors, ed. by A. Cunningham

A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...Show'd like a stubble land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again .; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff. —...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...shew'd like a stubble land at harvest-home ; he was perfumed like a milliner; and 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held a pouncet-box, which ever and anon he gave his nose, and took 't away again.—HOT. I., 3. • If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Show'd like a stubble land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry when it next came them. Took it in snuff —...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...Showed like a stubble-land at harvest home.1 He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff;...
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An Essay on Elocution: with Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...Bhow'd like a stubble land at harvest home, He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb, he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and tools 't away again; And still he smil'd, and talked; And ax the soldiers bare dead bodies...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 pages
...Showed like a stubble-land at harvest home. 1 He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ;— Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff; *—and...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...Show'd like a stubble land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twrxt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there. Took it in snuff;...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 744 pages
...Showed like a stubble-land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there Took it in snuff ;...
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