...apparition, and he goes away swelling with indignation at its impenetrable aristocracy. Or, a brother of Sir Plume, " Of amber snuff-box justly vain. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane," he looks for great effects to an exhibition of himself which really reflects credit on nobody but the...

...please him; and, accordingly,—a rich trait of character,—he was never weary of repeating the lines, "Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." Though he had mixed so much with the world, yet Nash was a man of great simplicity of character. He...

...And the nice conduct of a clouded cane) ' A Letter to Sir William Wyndham. * Swift on Good Manners. With earnest eyes and round unthinking face, He first...thus broke out, " My Lord, why, — what the devil ! 2 — ds ! — damn the lock ! — 'fore Gad, you must be civil ! Plague on't !— 'tis past a jest,—...

...perish all ! She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bid» her beau demand the precious hairs : year) When those blue eyes first opeu'd on the sphere...Averted half your parents' simple prayer ; Anil gave caae, And thus broke out — " My lord, why, what the devil ! " Z — ds ! damn the Lock ! 'fore Gad,...

...for society, one is tired of stalking from room to room, night after night, like a resuscitated "' Sir Plume, of amber snuffbox justly vain, And the nice conduct of a dandled cane.' " In short, in England one has the " far niente" without the " dolce ;" and it was of...

...of the humorous, take as a contrast to the two last examples, the following delineation of a fop : Sir Plume (of amber snuff-box justly vain , And the...earnest eyes and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-tox open'd, then the case, And thus broke out, " My Lord, why, — what the devil ? Z- — ds...

...Isaac, and enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of...

...Isaac, arid enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded "cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of...

...Isaac, and enabled to stand in the court of Queen Anne at the same degree of greatness with Pope's " Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." Thus "the Aristo of the North," after having filled the world with his fame, received the honor of...

...all Г" She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs. And bids her beaii demand the precious hairs: ou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the Karlh,...other rites Observing none, but adoration puie Whi damn the Lock! 'fore Gad, you mart be civil ! Plague on 't ! 'tis past a jest — nay pr'ythee. pox...