 She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 56by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...all ! 120 She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...cane) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, 125 He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, NOTES. Ver. 121. Sir Plume repairs,] Sir George Brown.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...health. Sir Plume (a proper name for a soldier) has all the circumstances that agree with Prince Eugene. Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane, With earnest eyes It is remarkable, this general is a great taker of snuff, as well as towns ; his conduct of the clouded... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1824 - 210 pages
...and patches, divide his self-love equally with his own person, the true Sir Plume of his day, — " Of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." There is the same felicity in the figure and attitude of the Bride, courted by the Lawyer. There is... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...perish all!' She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — ' My lord, why, what the devil ! Z — ds ! damn the lock ! 'fore Gad, you must be civil ! Plague on't! 'tis past... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...perish all!' She said ; then raging to Sir Flume repairs, And bide her beau demand the precious hairs (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, [devil f And thus broke out : — * My Lord, why, what the Z— ds ! damn the lock ; 'fore Gad, you... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...perish all !' She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — ' My lord, why what the devil, Z — ds ! damn the lock ! 'fore Gad, you must be civil ! Plague on't ! 'tis past... | |
 | 734 pages
...turns young smiles to tearsSuch is the promise of Thirty Years. MISERIES OF A SNUFFING PROBATIONER. "Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box opened, then the case." Паре of the Lock, Canto 1th. I am no snuffer by profession ; I do not keep... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...perish all!" She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain; And the nice conduct of a clnudedcane, With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box ope'd, and then the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...perish all !' She said ; then raging to air Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : why, what the devil? Z ds ! damn the lock : 'fore Gad, you must be civil ! Plague on't, 'tis past a... | |
 | William Hogarth - Art - 1833 - 538 pages
...represented as holding the lock of hair in his hand. Sir Plume, — the round-faced and insignificant Sir Plume, ' Of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,' — for Sir George Brown, who was the only one of the party who took the thing serious. He was angry... | |
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