 LITTLE tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire, Lip of wax and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently braced ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest, And the sweetest bliss...  The Annals of Jamaica - Page 597de George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 4 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...Philips is also well hit off — not by Browne himself, but by ' an ingenious friend : ' Little tube he lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science pressed, And the sweetest bliss of blisses Breathing from thy balmy kisses. Thomson is the subject... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...Philips is also well hit off — not by" Browne himself, but by 'an ingenious friend :' Little tube a female reign, all contemporary authors agree in...capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the pressed, And the sweetest bliss of blisses Breathing from thy balmy kissr>. Thomson is the subject... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 354 pages
...thou'rt wisdom : and in snuff thou'rt wit." The London Medley, 1731, p. 8. " Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire,...: And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest," Ac. Hawkins Brow*. 590 Torn.... | |
 | 1911 - 492 pages
...Scotland, as the joint then before him. Monthly Reviem, 179o. Imitation of Mr A. Phillips LITTLE tube of mighty power Charmer of an idle hour, Object of...; And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest ; And the sweetest bliss of blisses,... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1915 - 514 pages
...end. Thus an eighteenth-century poet, apostrophizing his pipe, sings : Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour. Object of my warm desire,...; And thy snowy taper waist With my finger gently brac'tl ; And thy pretty swelling crest With my little stopper prest. . . . ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE, 1706-1760... | |
 | Carl Avery Werner - 1922 - 488 pages
...gallant ship Who found out Tobac-kee. — Cigar and Tobacco World, London. A PIPE OF TOBACCO Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of...-thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper press'd, And the sweetest bliss of blisses, Breathing from thy balmy kisses. Happy thrice, and thrice... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 pages
...Imitation 2, Ambrose Philips (the rest of the series being by IH Browne) Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire,...: And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest, And the sweetest bliss of blisses,... | |
 | Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1997 - 308 pages
...worth writing about, or he would have never given us the following: Ode to a Tobacco Pipe Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of...wax, and eye of fire; And thy snowy taper waist, With thy finger gently braced; And thy pretty swelling crest, With thy little stopper prest; And the sweetest... | |
 | 1873 - 306 pages
...readers tell me who is the author of the following poem, and where it is to be found : " Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of...pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest; And the sweetest bliss of blisses, Breathing from thy balmy kisses. Happy thrice and thrice again,... | |
 | 1862 - 882 pages
...a sonnet to his mistress : "Pretty tubs of mighty power! Charmer of BU idle hour; Object of my hot desire, Lip of wax and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my fingers gently brac*d ; And thy lovely swelling crest. With my bended etopper preat; And tho sweetest... | |
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