 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 pages
...A PAPER OF TOBACCO. 415 acknowledgment of Grod's mercy in thus wrapping up " a blessing in a weed." Why should we so much despise, So good and wholesome...Thus think, and drink tobacco. The earthen pipe so lily-white, Shows that thou art a mortal wight, Even such, and gone with a touch : Thus think, and... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 pages
...wrapping up " a blessing in a weed." Why should we so much despise, So good and wholesome an excrcise, As early and late to meditate : Thus think, and drink tobacco. The earthen pipe so lily-white, Shows that thou art a mortal wight, Even such, and gone with a touch : Thus think, and... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1859 - 354 pages
...and wkipt which caused his committal to the Marshalsea prison. The following is Withers song : — " Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome...so lily white, Shows that thou art a mortal wight ; Eren such — and gone with a small touch : Thus think, and drink tobacco. " And when the smoke ascends... | |
 | 1889 - 366 pages
...Tobacco." One version commenced with the following stanza : WHY should we so much despise So good and sweet an exercise As, early and late, to meditate? Thus think, and drink tobacco.* Th« most usually accepted version runs as follows I—- THE Indian weed withered quite, Green at noon,... | |
 | William Chappell - 1893 - 240 pages
...entitled " Meditations on Tobacco," with the initials G[eorge] W[ither], which is as follows : — " Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome...and drink tobacco. The earthen pipe, so lily white, Shews that thou art a mortal wight ; Even such — and gone with a small touch: Thus think, and drink... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 522 pages
...at morn, cut down at eve, It shows our decay, we are but clay. Think of this when you smoke tobacco. Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome...exercise As early and late, to meditate, Thus think and smoke tobacco. See FW Fairholt, Tobacco, 102 f. Lond., 1859. Another variant occurs in Handy Andy.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 508 pages
...at morn, cut down at eve, It shows our decay, we are but clay. Think of this when you smoke tobacco. Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome...exercise As early and late, to meditate, Thus think and smoke tobacco. See FW Fairholt, Tobacco, 102 f. Lond., 1859. Another variant occurs in Handy Andy.... | |
 | Max Koch, Ludwig Geiger, W. Wetz, Joseph Collin, Philipp August Becker - 1899 - 554 pages
...and whipt" which caused his committal to the Marshalsea prison. The following is Wither's song: — Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome an exercise ... (5 Strophen, s. oben). About 1670, we find several copies of Wither's song, but the first stanza... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...pipe, so lily-like and weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak ; Thou art e'en such, — Gone with a touch : Thus think, and drink tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high, Then thou behold'st the vanity Of worldly stuff,— Gone with a puff : Thus think, and drink tobacco.... | |
 | J. A. C. Chandler, T. B. Thames - 1907 - 436 pages
...asked to have a drink it might, perhaps, have meant nothing more than the offering of a cigar or pipe. "Why should we so much despise So good and wholesome an exercise, As early or late to meditate, Thus think and drink tobacco. "The earthen pipe, so Illy-white, Shows thou art... | |
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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... 
