 | 1860 - 800 oldal
...cause by writing a poem entitled, " Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, (about their ears who idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at least-wise...volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon." If the smoothness of the verses equalled the euphony of the title, this must have proved a moving appeal.... | |
 | 1857 - 594 oldal
...the popular pott, Joshua Sylvester following in the wake of the royal counterblast, with his:— •' tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered about their...barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome & vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon. "—tolerable proof of the growing... | |
 | 1857 - 652 oldal
...Puritanical writer in the days of Queen Elizabeth, wrote a poem against tobacco with the following title : " Tobacco battered and the Pipes shattered about their Ears that idly idolize so loathsome a Vanity, by a Volley of holy Shot thundered from Mount Helicon." ww Malta. Sonnet on Tobacco.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 oldal
...compliment to him that he selected the topic of one of his original poems, which is thus entitled : " Tobacco battered, and the Pipes shattered (about their...barbarous a Weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a Vanitie) by a Volley of holy Shot thundered from Mount Helicon." He is chiefly known now on account... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 oldal
...bearing the strange title of Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered (about their eares that idely Idolize so base and barbarous a weed ; or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanitie) by a volley of holy shot, thundered from Mount Helicon. The verbosity of the title page is... | |
 | 1860 - 794 oldal
...cause by writing a poem entitled, " Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, (about their cars who idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at least-wise...volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon." If the smoothness of the verses equalled the euphony of the title, this must have proved a moving appeal.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 oldal
...to the prejudices of King James, may bo quoted as a lively specimen of his style and genius :— " Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their...volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§ But, with all his general flatness and frequent absurdity, Sylvester has an uncommon flow of harmonious... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 636 oldal
...Puritan to the prejudices of King James, may be quoted as a lively specimen of his style and genius :—" Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their...overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot tlnmdered from Mount Helicon."§ But, with all his general flatness and frequent absurdity, Sylvester... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 624 oldal
...Puritan to the prejudices of King James, may be quoted as a lively specimen of his style and genius :—" Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so ha.-e and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 oldal
...to the prejudices of King James, may be quoted as a lively specimen of his style and genius : — " Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their...volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."* But, with all Ins general flatness and frequent absurdity, Sylvester has an uncommon flow of harmonious... | |
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Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§... 
