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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... true snuffer ? The last moment ere he sleeps , the first when he awakes , he ap- plies with habitual instinct to his box . If a bad sleeper , there go two pinches , at least , to each waking . Then , during his visible hours , how few ...
... true snuffer ? The last moment ere he sleeps , the first when he awakes , he ap- plies with habitual instinct to his box . If a bad sleeper , there go two pinches , at least , to each waking . Then , during his visible hours , how few ...
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... true Cross . We will make no comment as to these contrasted claims on the gratitude of posterity . Popular tradition gives to the gallant and un- fortunate Sir Walter Raleigh , the glory of having introduced tobacco in our own dear ...
... true Cross . We will make no comment as to these contrasted claims on the gratitude of posterity . Popular tradition gives to the gallant and un- fortunate Sir Walter Raleigh , the glory of having introduced tobacco in our own dear ...
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... true is " that the royal " pug " was surmounted by eyes full of intellect and goodness . When Princess Charlotte was a child , at a ball given by her Majesty to the juvenile nobility , her Royal Highness being advised to call a dance ...
... true is " that the royal " pug " was surmounted by eyes full of intellect and goodness . When Princess Charlotte was a child , at a ball given by her Majesty to the juvenile nobility , her Royal Highness being advised to call a dance ...
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... - dian , will sometimes wrench a word from its true sound and meaning , making him talk of " Batri- body ad dice wibid . " The battered one took to plain snuff , and was again enabled to speak through 12 A PINCH - OF SNUFF . II.
... - dian , will sometimes wrench a word from its true sound and meaning , making him talk of " Batri- body ad dice wibid . " The battered one took to plain snuff , and was again enabled to speak through 12 A PINCH - OF SNUFF . II.
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... true that the little genius did recommend this snuff from the stage ; a word from him must have had great influence with the public , and lent Hardham's 37 , a mental elegant character . VIOLET STRASBURG . This once popular snuff is now ...
... true that the little genius did recommend this snuff from the stage ; a word from him must have had great influence with the public , and lent Hardham's 37 , a mental elegant character . VIOLET STRASBURG . This once popular snuff is now ...
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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...