...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...portrait our immortal bard has drawn, and whom we have been in the habit uf admiring as — 'The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers,' he was yet what, in common parlance, we should call a fine young man. It was not from a single interview...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...opinions and ideas of him. Hamlet possessed a graceful figure — vide act iii. scene 1. " The glass of fashion and the mould of form ; the observed of all observers." Hamlet was a master of the graceful art of fencing — vide last act. Hamlet was a keen observer of...