...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...

...influence perhaps was greater and more respected than the wig and cane together, as Swift says:-- " Sir Plume, of Amber snuff-box, justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." N1COTIANA. 65 Well, and what do the faculty say with reference to smoking? Some will tell you it is...

...Sir Plume, a proper name for a soldier, has all the circumstances that agree with prince Eugene : — Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane, With earnest eyes It is remarkable, this general is a great taker of snuff as well as towns ; his conduct of the clouded...

...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...

...all ! " She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And hids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...then the case, And thus broke out : — " My Lord, why, what the devil? Z — ds ! damn the Lock ! 'fore Gad, you must be civil! Plague on't ! 'tis past...

...raging to sir Plume repairs, And hids her heau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amher snuff-hox th Lintot.' ' Lintot, dull rugue ! will think your...much :' ' Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.' snuff-hox open'd, then the case, And thus hroke out : — ' My Lord, why, what the devil? Z ds ! damn...

...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...

...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...