 The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff— and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke...  Poems - Page 162by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | George Winfred Hervey - Conversation - 1853 - 398 pages
...and puff, and speak and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers 1 have more smoke than fire. Pernicious weed, whose...for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours." Conversers who use narcotics, and stimulating and exhilarating 318 ACCOMPANIMENTS OF CONVERSATION.... | |
 | Elisha Harris - Nicotine addiction - 1853 - 56 pages
...has been the honest confession of multitudes who have fallen into habits of intemperance and vice. " Pernicious weed, whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly...for hours The sex, whose presence civilizes ours. They dare not wait the riotous abuse Thy thirst-creating streams at length produce, When wine has given... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1853 - 800 pages
...fair Eleanor, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, 245 Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing...drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff — and spoak, and pause again. Such often, like the tuba they so admire, Important triflers ' have more smoke... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...Eleanor, Or {riant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, ( 245 Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ' have more smoke than fire. 250 Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys ; Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...lullaby at night : Guy, earl of Warwick, and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...triflers ! have more smoke than fire. Pernicious weed I whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 468 pages
...lullaby at night; Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack would please me more. The pipe with solemn interposing puff Makes half a...dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff,—and speak, and pause again. Such often like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...Eleanor, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, 24'» Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than (ire. 250 Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys ; Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst... | |
 | Charlotte Adams - Boys - 1854 - 468 pages
...into the truths that are advanced for his good.— ADDKESS TO SMOKEHS OF TOUACCO. Pernicious weed I whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effects is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours ; Thou art, indeed, the drng a... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - Conversation - 1854 - 380 pages
...Conversation, makes a launch upon those smoking colloquists who "... with solemn interposing puff, Make half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the dozing strain, Then pause and puff, and speak and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...fair Eleanor, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, 245 Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing...admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire. 250 Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys ; Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect... | |
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