| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 498 σελίδες
..." That fashion'd others." The same figure occurs in Hamlet : " The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword, " The glass of fashion and the mould of form, " The observ'd of all observers." " He had no legs that practis"d not his gait" This phraseology is a-kin... | |
| Jane Porter - 1806 - 264 σελίδες
...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 - 1808 - 416 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 σελίδες
...must give my reasons, " on compulsion," for not speaking well of a person like Sir Philip Sidney — " The soldier's, scholar's, courtier's eye, tongue,...The glass of fashion, and the mould of form ;" the splendour of whose personal accomplishments, and of whose wide-spread fame was, in his life time, "... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 σελίδες
...must give my reasons, " on compulsion," for not speaking well of a person like Sir Philip Sidney — " The soldier's, scholar's, courtier's eye, tongue, sword, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form ;" i the splendour of whose personal accomplishments, and of whose wide-spread fame was, in... | |
| 1832 - 614 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1832 - 698 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1824 - 706 σελίδες
...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... | |
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