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27117He wrote,"In the Twelve- daies[ before Christmas?]
37388_ Sind Bakterien die Ursache der Tabakfermentation?_"Centralbl.
22825Can a day be perfect to The rose that has not sipped the dew?
22825Can the Bee, do you suppose, Hum, that has not sipped the rose?
22825Can there be for Man, I say, Without a smoke, a perfect day?
22825How''d you do it?
22825Mist and moisture?
22825November, back once more?
22825October, how in thunder Do you keep so young, I wonder?
22825Where is_ your_ independence, pray?"
22825[ Illustration][ Illustration] JUNE"What so rare as a day in June?"
22825[ Illustration][ Illustration] NOVEMBER Who''s that pedler at the door?
22825confound you, What''s the secret?
17008Admitting then, and not confessing that the vse thereof were healthfull for some sortes of diseases; should it be vsed for all sicknesses?
17008And is it not a great vanitie, that a man can not heartily welcome his friend now, but straight they must bee in hand with_ Tobacco_?
17008And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?
17008First are you not guiltie of sinnefull and shamefull lust?
17008For is it not a very great mistaking, to take_ Non causam pro causa_, as they say in the Logicks?
17008What speak I of Medicine?
17008Why doe we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they doe?
17008[ Footnote D: Had the royal pedant ever heard of locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen?]
17008in preferring glasses, feathers, and such toyes, to golde and precious stones, as they do?
17008should it be vsed at al times?
17008should it be vsed by all men?
17008yea should it be vsed by able, yong, strong, healthfull men?
17008yea why do we not denie God and adore the Deuill, as they doe?
36879And is it a name ye''r in want of, Sir? 36879 You big blackguard you, did n''t you get drunk and fall asleep?"
36879''An ounce a day,''said I,(_ the echo!_)''What is tobacco an ounce?''
36879''Now, Sir,''said he,''can you smoke any, will you have a pipe?''
36879''Perhaps 7_d._''''And how many years have you been in the habit of taking snuff?''
36879''Sinful,''said he, laughing--(_jolly fellow!_)--''how can it be sinful?''
36879Are we singular in our opinion?
36879I do take snuff: do YOU think there is sin in it, Sir?''
36879In regard to snuff he is wisely meek; for what were he himself without the stimulating dust in his pocket?
36879It amounts to more than 60_l._ without the interest(_ profound calculation!_) Now, do you think that God will reward you for taking snuff?''
36879Well, and what do the faculty say with reference to smoking?
36879What charm''d me in the thoughts of past, When mem''ry''s gleam my eyes o''ercast, And burns to serve me to the last?
36879What cheer''d me in my boyhood''s hour, When first I felt Love''s witching power, To bear deceit,--false woman''s dow''r?
36879What does not MOLIERE, their favorite author say, in favor of the herb?
36879What sceptic so rash, dares breathe a doubt of the truth of this statement?
36879What sooth''d me in a foreign land, And charm''d me with its influence bland, Still whisp''ring comfort, hand in hand?
36879What soothes the peasant when his toil is done?
36879What still upheld me since the guile, Attendant on false friendship''s smile, And I in hope, deceiv''d the while?
36879What taught me first sweet peace to blend, With hopes and fears that knew no end, My dearest, truest, fondest friend?
36879than in the inspired lines of thy true admirer Byron?
36879why is it not true?
14887And this old silver patched affair?
14887It taught me?
14887Killed him?
14887My cigarette-- I''m smoking yet?
14887''[ Omega][sigmaf][ phi][upsilon][lambda][lambda][omega][nu][ gamma][epsilon][nu][epsilon][eta], as Homer sings?
14887A few more years, When we are dead and famous-- eh?
14887Ah, will he smoke no more?
14887Alina?
14887Am I to blame that I should be Enraged?
14887And what does it say?
14887And what is he who smokes thee now?
14887And what was he who bore it?
14887And will there be no golden cloud Upon the golden shore?
14887But it is sweet to kiss; and I Should love to kiss a wife and pet her-- She scolds?
14887Can I forget How Kate and I, in sunny weather, Sat in the shade the elm- tree made And rolled the fragrant weed together?
14887Can artist paint the fiery glints Of this quaint finger here beside it, With amber nail,--the lustrous tints, A thousand Partagas have dyed it?
14887Cats may have had their goose Cooked by tobacco juice; Still, why deny its use Thoughtfully taken?
14887Christina?
14887Did it, safe hidden in some secret cavern, Escape that monarch''s pipoclastic ken?
14887Did the great Khalif in his"House of Pleasures"Wager and lose it to the good Zaafar?
14887Do you remember when first we met?
14887Does juice medicinal proceed From such a naughty foreign weed?
14887Does this dream fade?
14887Has Shakespeare smoked it at the Mermaid Tavern, Quaffing a cup of sack with rare old Ben?
14887Has it been hoarded in a monarch''s treasures?
14887Have I not still My fill Of right good cheer,-- Cigars and beer?
14887How are we gainers when all''s done, If Life''s swift clepsydra have run With wine for water?
14887How did they live?
14887How know I that she will not change, My wishes at defiance set?
14887Ma pauvre petite, My little sweet, Why do you cry?
14887May not my soul to my soul confess That"succeeding,"here upon earth, Does not alway assume success?
14887Nina?
14887Oh, answer, my pipe, shall my dream be as fair When it changes to dreams of the past?
14887Oh, give me but Virginia''s weed, An earthen bowl, a stem of reed, What care I for the weather?
14887Open the old cigar- box,--let me consider anew,-- Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon_ you_?
14887Or will the world cry"Quantum suff"To tattle such as"Keats took snuff"?
14887Say, pipe, let''s talk of love; Canst aid me?
14887Should we not for our sustentation eat Because a surfeit comes from too much meat?
14887Since a puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall I follow the fitful fire?
14887So"Keats took snuff?"
14887Speaking of color,--do you know A maid with eyes as darkly splendid As are the hues that, rich and slow, On this Hungarian bowl have blended?
14887The courtiers alone To this weed are not prone; Would you know what''tis makes them so slack-- O?
14887The pipe gone out?
14887Then give me but Virginia''s weed, An earthen bowl, a stem of reed, What care I for the weather?
14887Then let non- smokers rail forever; Shall their hard words true friends dissever?
14887Then what''s the power Of Jesse''s Flower?
14887Then who shall chide, with boasting pride, Delights they ne''er have tasted?
14887Throughout the world who knows thee not?
14887To laugh and float While rocks the boat Upon the waves,--Don''t you?
14887Was it a gift of peace, or prize of war?
14887Was this small plant for thee cut down?
14887Well, and what has it all been worth?
14887What blest of cities Saw it first kindle at the glowing coal?
14887What country gave it birth?
14887What else but lighted dust am I?
14887What good is she To you or me Who have but a"position"?
14887What happy artist murmured,"Nunc dimittis,"When he had fashioned this transcendent bowl?
14887What if luck has passed me by?
14887What if my hopes are dead, My pleasures fled?
14887What if our times seem sliding down?
14887What if your way seems dull and long?
14887What made my fingers tremble so, As you wrapped skeins of worsted snow, Around them, now with movements slow And now with dashes?
14887What needs my Muse to sing thy various praise?
14887What pleasure could the Old World give That ancient miserable lot When thou wert not?
14887What woman''s lip Could ever give, like thy red tip, Such unremitting store of bliss, Or such a kiss?
14887What wonder if I envy not The rich, the giddy, and the proud, Contented in this quiet spot To blow my after- dinner cloud?
14887What wonder if it stills my care To quit the present for the past, And summon back the things that were, Which only thus in vapor last?
14887What''s my love''s name?
14887What''s the matter with the music?
14887When fragrant clouds thy fumes exhale, And hover round the nut- brown ale, Who thinks of claret or champagne?
14887When that last pipe is smoked at last And pouch and pipe put by, And Smoked and Smoker both alike In dust and ashes lie, What of the Smoker?
14887Which is the better portion,--bondage bought with a ring, Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?
14887Whither passed?
14887Who could help but love her so?
14887Who shall rhyme to Knickerbocker?
14887Who''d wish to we d?
14887Why Should I Weep, wail, or sigh?
14887Why do I thus recall the ancient quarrel Twixt Man and Time, that marks all earthly things?
14887Why labor to re- word the hackneyed moral[ Greek: Hôs phyllôn geneê], as Homer sings?
14887Why not, then, new things to the gnu, And trews to Highland clansmen true?
14887Why this small tear, So pure and clear, In each blue eye?
14887Why, what is this?
14887Wilhelmina?
14887Will it see me safe through my journey, or leave me bogged in the mire?
14887Will they record our pipes and beers, And if we smoked cigars or clay?
14887With Pipe and Book at close of day, Oh, what is sweeter, mortal, say?
14887Would you know his chief skill?
14887he cries,"What''s these here games, my merry men?"
14887shall I weave Thy history together with my own?
14887what are our biggest winnings, If peaceful content we miss?
14887what had I at such a time To do with wasting care?
18934''But how,''I asked,''do you know that my reverting to the pleasant habit of not smoking is the cause of my present ailment?'' 18934 ''But the disease has been known, has it not, for a long time?''
18934''Then, if you admit it, why pamper yourself?'' 18934 Anything particular in the letter?"
18934Both doing well?
18934Boy or girl?
18934But what does she say about explaining matters to her father?
18934Do n''t you see that they are in for the prize?
18934Do you know Tirano, a hamlet in a nest of vines, where Italian soldiers strut and women sleep in the sun beside baskets of fruit? 18934 Do you know a man, Scudamour?
18934Heard from Henry?
18934How about the children?
18934How did he take it?
18934How?
18934Is it a pigeon?
18934Madame,I reply calmly, and bowing low,"what else was to be expected?
18934No word of Henry''s getting leave of absence?
18934Oh, you know Nottingham,he says, interestedly;"and how do you like Labouchere for a member?"
18934Or was it the day before?
18934She is grateful to me,he concluded,"for drawing away suspicion from the other man, but what can have made the father so amiable?
18934To stay with Alexander?
18934We have a notion,Scrymgeour said, with an effort, on my second night,"that you would rather we did not feast you to- morrow evening?"
18934What does he mean?
18934What does it mean?
18934What has taken him there?
18934What sort of character did he have among the fellows?
18934Where do you get it?
18934Why had I not tried the tobacco,he asked,"instead of taking a third cigar?"
18934With her?
18934You want me to be intercessor? 18934 ''Do n''t you remember Tom Rufus,''Jack asked,''who used to play the female part at the Cambridge A.D.C.? 18934 ''Do you mean to say that in the beginning of May you were taking my prescription daily? 18934 ''One cigar a day, when I ordered you three? 18934 ''Where on earth did you come from?'' 18934 After all, why should I take in a daily paper? 18934 Are you listening? 18934 Are you sure of the date?''
18934As far as possible I shall give you his exact words:"''When did you give up smoking?''
18934At least----''"''At least what?
18934Besides, could I reasonably be expected to risk catching my death of cold for the sake of a wretched chrysanthemum?
18934Besides, did I love her?
18934But I have the child''s happiness in my hands; can I trample it beneath my feet?
18934But as for knowing that indulgence in not smoking is what has brought you to this state, how long is it since you noticed these symptoms?''
18934But is this wise?
18934But is_ Rosalind_ to be taken seriously?
18934But stop; does such a passion have a beginning?
18934But who was she?
18934But why was this period riper for magnificent deeds and noble literature than any other in English history?
18934But would it not have been rather hard on me to have had to forsake my books for the sake of Gilray''s flowers and flower- pots and plants and things?
18934But, after all, my mother is older than I am; and who am I, to set my views up against hers?
18934Did I really mean to do this, or was I only trying to cheat my conscience?
18934Did he, or did he not, mean to try that tobacco?
18934Do you fancy me explaining that he is quite right in saying that Nottingham has a large market- place?
18934Do you imagine me thirsting to tell that Mr. Labouchere is the Christian member for Northampton?
18934Do you now note the same symptoms?
18934Do you remember his favorite seat at the door of the saloon?"
18934Do you see me drawn into half an hour''s talk about Robin Hood?
18934Do you think I put him right?
18934Does not her attachment to me give her a claim upon me?
18934Does the freed slave always shiver at the crack of a whip?
18934For me, would it not be the better part to show her that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be my first consideration?
18934Had Pettigrew, then, any ground for insinuating that I did not mean to try it?
18934Have you experienced a sudden sinking at the heart, followed by thrills of exultation?
18934Having given them this warning, can it be said that I was to blame-- at least, to any considerable extent?
18934He cried out,"Who is that?"
18934How happily we entered it; were we the same persons who left it within an hour?
18934How long ago is that?''
18934I presume, too, that you feel most depressed in the evening-- say, immediately after dinner?''
18934I put it to any sensible man or woman, could I have been expected to give up my friends for the sake of a chrysanthemum?
18934I said,"Have you killed him?"
18934I said,"Is that the editor?"
18934If I had begun the day with a meerschaum, might it not have shown itself in a new light?
18934Is this love, after all?
18934Is this passion?
18934My brother wrote me saying he had received something from me, for which his best thanks; but would I tell him what it was, as it puzzled everybody?
18934My dream is the following criticism: What is the Critics''Dramatic Society?
18934My father had been very good to me; why, then, should I do that which I had promised him not to do?
18934Nay, more, in a pathetic case of this kind, have I not a certain responsibility?
18934Now, what is to be done?
18934Often they took the form of postscripts:"By the way, are you watering my chrysanthemum?"
18934One day he wrote to me saying that his nephew was going to Bombay, and would I be so good as to give the youth an introduction to my brother Henry?
18934Or what do you say to the housekeeper''s giving me a shilling of it, and not sending the neckties?
18934Should it not be in flood before we know what we are about?
18934The heroine, in frantic excitement, has to pass through his smoking room, and on the table she sees-- what?
18934The pose of the head, the hands clasped behind it, a trick so irritatingly familiar to me-- was that the French girl?
18934The question for me, therefore, is, Is this the beginning of a tempestuous, surging passion?
18934The question was, what was the proper thing for me to do?
18934Then he said, with affected jocularity:"Well, young man, do you know that you are an uncle?"
18934WHAT COULD HE DO?
18934WHAT COULD HE DO?
18934Was there not less in him than met the eye?
18934Was this right?
18934We were never baffled, for"Jimmy''s touches"were unmistakable; and"Have you seen Jimmy this week in the_ Saturday_ on Lewis Morris?"
18934Well, do I experience such sensations, or do I not?
18934What I ask myself is-- first, What is it?
18934What do you think William John said?
18934What do you think?
18934What does the lady say?"
18934What is it?
18934What right has a man to go and make a garden of his chambers?
18934What?
18934Where are the spills?
18934Who can say what might happen if I were to fling that cupboard door open in presence of my wife?
18934Who can tell?
18934Who can withstand that music?
18934Why ca n''t you leave me alone?
18934Why do n''t you try the_ Sporting Times?_ Yours faithfully, J. MOGGRIDGE, Ed.
18934Why?
18934Will you help me-- and her?"
18934With the servants flinging out the flower- pots faster than I could water them, what more could I have done?
18934Would I have a cigar?
18934Yes, but why did I love this one?
18934You are not asleep, are you?
18934You have many cases like mine?''
18934[ Illustration] But where is Shakespeare all this time?
18934[ Illustration]"''Three months ago,''I replied, taken by surprise;''but how did you know I had given it up?''
18934[ Illustration]"What is it?
18934[ Illustration][ Illustration]"Where is it?
18934and disturbed my neighbors?
18934and fourthly, What shall I do with it?
18934he said,''you are not sure of that yourself, are you?''
18934or,"I say, do you think Buchanan knows it was Jimmy who wrote that?"
18934secondly, Where is it?
18934thirdly, Who is it?