 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!  A Visit to Iceland: By Way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" Yacht, in ... - Page 307by John Barrow - 1835 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jane Porter - Poland - 1806 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 448 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | Theater - 1824 - 456 pages
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 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...Prince of Deumark whose portrait our immortal bard has drawn, and whom we have been in the habit uf admiring as — 'The glass of fashion, and the mould...stay we made on the island, and found him always, and ou all occasions, the same: always civil, agreeable in conversation, and studious to oblige. His suite... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 486 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...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... | |
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