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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... quantity may be allowed a pretty , juvenile , ' maiden gentlewoman , just as she may enjoy wine , beef , exercise , learn- ing , and love " soberly ; " without trenching on the license of the " chartered libertine " she is in duty bound ...
... quantity may be allowed a pretty , juvenile , ' maiden gentlewoman , just as she may enjoy wine , beef , exercise , learn- ing , and love " soberly ; " without trenching on the license of the " chartered libertine " she is in duty bound ...
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... quantity of either of these is sufficient to flavour a box full of plain snuff . It was usual for the fabricants of snuff , in France , to present to the King , upon New Year's Day , specimens of their various manufactures ; whichever ...
... quantity of either of these is sufficient to flavour a box full of plain snuff . It was usual for the fabricants of snuff , in France , to present to the King , upon New Year's Day , specimens of their various manufactures ; whichever ...
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... quantity of red earth , is brought from the Havanna under the high sound- ing name of PENALVAR . Its pungency is so great that a very few grains are sufficient to create a · violent attack of sternutation , by which hard name , as every ...
... quantity of red earth , is brought from the Havanna under the high sound- ing name of PENALVAR . Its pungency is so great that a very few grains are sufficient to create a · violent attack of sternutation , by which hard name , as every ...
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... quantity of scorched and burnt tobacco , from off the ruins . This he ground up into a new sort of snuff , which he sold excessively cheap among the poorer sort of Irish . It was much admired for its pungency , and soon grew into ...
... quantity of scorched and burnt tobacco , from off the ruins . This he ground up into a new sort of snuff , which he sold excessively cheap among the poorer sort of Irish . It was much admired for its pungency , and soon grew into ...
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... quantity of this precious powder . An ex - military , ex - theatrical scribe , whose reminiscences of a great farçeur have been praised for their friendly fidelity , tells , verbally as yet , the following fact : — " On my first ...
... quantity of this precious powder . An ex - military , ex - theatrical scribe , whose reminiscences of a great farçeur have been praised for their friendly fidelity , tells , verbally as yet , the following fact : — " On my first ...
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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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الصفحة 15 - 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.
الصفحة 14 - 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.
الصفحة 100 - 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...
الصفحة 79 - 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,...
الصفحة 100 - 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.
الصفحة 43 - 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.
الصفحة 147 - 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...
الصفحة 43 - 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.
الصفحة 58 - 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.
الصفحة 116 - And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each...