 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!  The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts, Music ... - Seite 331832Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jane Porter - 1806 - 264 Seiten
...scenes in his days of happiness, when he was ' the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion, and the mould of form, the observed of all observers ;' and their re-appearance, awakened, with tender remembrances, an associating sensibility, which made... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 448 Seiten
...social virtues, one whom nature had formed to be, " The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers," placed in a situation, in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 Seiten
...Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 Seiten
...the 8th ode, of the 1st book of Horace. — — — Sybarin cur properes amaudo Perdere ? The gins* of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers ; in a » onl. the Prince of Dandies. The picture of a fop is excellently drawn ; we copy the most... | |
 | 1832 - 614 Seiten
...this class of producers, these elite of the nation, these models for imitation — these, the ' glass of fashion, and the mould of form — the observed of all observers,' — men who, by their manners and taste, ornament whatever spot they honour with their presence, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 Seiten
...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glase of fashion, and the mould * of form, The observed of all observers ! quite, quite down! And Ï, of ladiea most deject and wretched. That suck'd the honey of his music... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 Seiten
...Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows,... | |
 | 1824 - 706 Seiten
...displays a morbid sensibility, which is his diteate. On the sight of Ophelia, he appears — The glass of fashion, and the mould of form: The observed of all observers ! which is his natural character ; and when the remembrances are tendered to him, he puts his antic... | |
 | Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby - 1825 - 322 Seiten
...commanded universal admiration, and a manner which checked individual impertinence, shone fourth "the glass of fashion, and the mould of form — The observed of all observers." CHAPTER III. AT the breaking up of Lord Eatington's dinner party, Lord Ormsby was tempted by the fineness... | |
 | 1826 - 508 Seiten
...(c.) O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down 1 And 1, of ladies most deject and wretched. That suck'd the honey of his music vows,... | |
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