 | DR. WARBURTON - 1856
...to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, (of amber snufl-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — ' My... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859
...the humorous, take, as a contrast to the last two examples, the following delineation of a fop : " Sir Plume (of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...nice conduct of a clouded cane), With earnest eyes, and round, unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out : ' My... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 332 pages
...Rape of the Lock notes the use of the Snuff-box as a luxurious appendage to the ban ton '• — " Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...nice conduct of a clouded cane ; With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case." This nobleman's habit of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Literary Criticism - 1859
...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. One of the most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Steele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Literary Criticism - 1860
...perish all !* She said ; then raging to sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious bain (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain. And the...nice conduct of a clouded cane :) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case. And thus broke out : — *... | |
 | John Timbs - Art - 1860 - 392 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," — As this little story was intended to be viewed on gold, the figures in the copy are not reversed,... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1860 - 363 pages
...THE RAPE OP THE LOCK." Sir Plume demands the restoration of the lock. " (Sir Plume of amber snuff box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff box open'd, then the case. ****** It grieves me much... | |
 | george campbell - 1860
...the last two examples, the following delineation of a fop : " Sir Plume (of amber snuff-box iustlv vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane), With earnest eyes, and round, unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out : ' My... | |
 | Henry William Bristow - Nature - 1861 - 420 pages
...extravagant prices. In other countries the orange-yellow transparent variety is decidedly preferred. ", Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded« cane :" POP«, Rape ojthe iMck. In the Museum of Mineralogy in Paris there is the handle of a cane made... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863
...all ! " She said ; then raging to Sir Plume 1 repairs. And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : Sir Plume, of amber snuffbox justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane, With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — " My... | |
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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... 
