The Fragrant Weed: Some of the Good Things which Have Been Said Or Sung about Tobacco |
Common terms and phrases
after-dinner cloud ashes bliss blow my after-dinner boys brain breath bright Broken and passed burning Capen Brown charm cheer cheroot cigarette dear deil a rap delight disengaged doth dream drowning fusee dust enraged eyes fill finely seasoned briar fire fragrant weed fumes Gentleman's Magazine George Wither give glory glowing half so sweet hath Havana heart Honeydew hookah incense Irish Irish Literature joke Keats took snuff kiss last cigar Latakia leaf light lips loves to smoke maid man's Meerschaum Pipe mother-in-law mouth Neath nicotine nose o'er old Dhudeen old pipe Orinoco perfume pipe awry pipe of tobacco plant pleasant pleasure poets pouting pet praise Puffed Queen rap for thee ripe round Says Jack sing Sir Walter Sir Walter Raleigh smile smoke tobacco smoking pipe sneeze snuff-box song soothing soul tell there's nothing half thou art Torridge trusty old clay Twas verses Virginia
Popular passages
Page 117 - Sweet, when they've cleared away Lunch; and at close of day Possibly sweetest: I have a liking old For thee, though manifold Stories, I know, are told, Not to thy credit; How one (or two at most) Drops make a cat a ghost — Useless, except to roast — Doctors have said it: How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards; Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving-knives Into their gizzards.
Page 77 - Some want a German row, Some wish a Russian war; I care not — I'm at peace, So I have my cigar. I never see the " Post," I seldom read the " Star " ; The " Globe " I scarcely heed, So I have my cigar.
Page 24 - Under this stone lies Meredith Morgan, Who blew the bellows of our church organ ; Tobacco he hated, to smoke most unwilling, Yet never so pleased as when pipes he was filling ; No reflection on him for rude speech could be cast, Though he made our old organ give many a blast. No puffer was he, though a capital blower. He could fill double G, and now lies a note lower.
Page 149 - The earthen pipe, so Illy-white, Shows thou art a mortal wight; Even such eone with a small touch — Thus think and drink tobacco. "And when the smoke ascending high. Think on the worldly vanity, Of worldly stuff, 'tis gone with a puff, Thus think and drink tobacco.
Page 153 - O'er history's varied page I pore, Man's fate in thine I see. Oft, as thy snowy column grows, Then breaks and falls away, I trace how mightv realms thus rose, Thus trembled to decay.
Page 138 - WAS this small plant for thee cut down ? So was the plant of great renown, Which Mercy sends For nobler ends. Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Page 36 - I owe to smoking, more or less, Through life the whole of my success ; With my cigar I'm sage and wise — Without, I'm dull as cloudy skies. When smoking all my ideas soar, When not, they sink upon the floor. The greatest men have all been smokers, And so were all the greatest jokers. Then ye who'd bid adieu to care, Come here and smoke it into air ! Many of these papers are " adorned with cuts," that must have done service for very many years.
Page 152 - YES, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctors' spite ; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, And lap me in delight.
Page 111 - ... a lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire, Sir ; while for stanching of wounds, purging of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there's no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven.
Page 128 - Tube, thy colour let me find, In her skin and in her mind. Let her have a shape as fine ; Let her breath be sweet as thine : Let her, when her lips I kiss, Burn like thee to give me bliss. Let her, in some smoke or other, All my failings kindly smother. Often when my thoughts are low, Send them where they ought to go. When to study I incline, Let her aid be such as thine : Such as thine her charming pow'r In the vacant social hour.