 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 sidor
...chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble land at harvest home: He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which, ever and anon, He gave his nose, and took't away again ; And still he smil'd, and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 400 sidor
...chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble land at harvest home: He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which, ever and anon, He gave his nose, and took't away again ; And still he smil'd, and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies... | |
 | Edward Goulburn - 1810 - 146 sidor
...correct in metre, are, not unfrequently, in this sort of poetry, the most inharmonious. THE FINE MAN. " 'Twixt his finger and his thumb he held " A pouncet-box, which ever and anon " He gave his nose, and took't away again." Shakspeare. " IP8E LOQUITUR." JT LEBEIANS avaunt ! I have alter'd my... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 sidor
...new reap'd, Show d like a stubble land at harvest-home : He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twin his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box which ever and anon, He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry when it next came theie, Took it in snuff —... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1813 - 404 sidor
...his whiskers long, Show'd like a stubble land at harvest-home. He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in suuff." My other... | |
 | 1816 - 770 sidor
...Strong pounc'd. Thomfon's Spring. * POUNCET-BOX. nf [pounce and box.} A fmall box perforated. — 'T*ixt his finger and his thumb, he held A pouncetbox, which ever and anon He gave his nofe. Shalt. Henry IV. (i.) * POUND, nf [pond fund, S.ixt.n, trom ponjo, Lat.] IA certain weight, continuing,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 sidor
...chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home : He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and tnok't away again;- • Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff:... | |
 | Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 770 sidor
...stubble beard shone like a field at harvest home : besides, he was perfumed like a milliner; and betwixt his finger and his thumb he held a pouncet-box, which ever and anon he gave his nose." Nothing can be more close than the resemblance when his lordship was a very gay officer, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 sidor
...chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff :—... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 sidor
...like a stubble-land at harvest-home. He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and hi? thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose ;— and still hesroil'd, and talk'd : And as the soldiers bare dead bodies by, He call'd them... | |
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He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff... 
