Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
Amusements; Fortune-telling; Quotations, English
23. A beard that would make a razor shake,
Unless its nerves were strong!
ALBERT PIKE.
24. He hath but a little beard, but time will send more if the man
will be thankful.
_As You Like It._
25. A fresh young Squire,
A lover, and a lusty bachelor;
With locks curl'd as they were laid in press:
Of twenty years of age he is, I guess.
CHAUCER.
26. His form is middle size,
Shaped in proportion fair;
And hazel is his eagle eye,
And auburn of the deepest dye
His short curl'd beard and hair.
SCOTT.
27. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
_Coriolanus._
28. A kind true heart, a spirit high,
That cannot fear, and will not bow,
Are written in his manly eye,
And on his manly brow.
HALLECK.
29. He has more goodness in his little finger, than you have in your
whole body;
Indeed he is a personable man, and not a spindle-shanked
hoddy-doddy.
SWIFT.
30. A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise,
The spacious earth cannot afford again.
_Richard III._
31. A handsome gallant, and a beau of spirit,
Who can go down the dance so well as he?
TENNENT--_Anster Fair_.
32. A phantom, fashionably thin,
With limb of lath, and bearded chin.
SCOTT--_Bridal of Triermain_.
33. There is a fair behavior in him,
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of him
I well believe, he has a mind that suits
With this his fair and outward character.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona._
34. Like a crane, his neck is long and fine,
With which he swalloweth up excessive feast.
SPENSER.
35. Oh thy love has an eye
Like a star in the sky,
And breath like the sweets from the hawthorn tree;
And his heart is a treasure,
Whose worth is past measure,
And yet he hath given all--all to thee.
BARRY CORNWALL.
36. His form, his face, his noble mien,
The sweetness of his touching tone,
His feeling heart so simply shown,
Such gifts of mind, such gentle grace,
Proclaim him of no common race.
SOTHEBY.
37. A brow of beautiful yet earnest thought,
A form of manly grace.
MRS. SIGOURNEY.
38. He's handsome, valiant, young,
And looks as he were laid for nature's best,
To catch weak women's eyes.
DRYDEN--_All for Love_.
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