 | William Hone - 1859 - 918 pages
...that me•Sinki your children begin lo play with broken pipes instead of corals, r>> make •»ay frir their teeth. You will find my visit short; I cannot...with you, because your bread is too heavy, and you distrain the light substance of herbs. Your drink is too thick, and yet you are seldom o\ er curious... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Tobacco - 1859 - 354 pages
...D'Avenant, writing in 1634, speaks of the custom of smoking as " so much in fashion, that methinks your children begin to play with broken pipes instead of corals, to make way for their teeth." During the reign of Charles I., no alteration was made in the restrictive laws against tobacco. He... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - English drama - 1873 - 384 pages
...see it grow so much in fashion, thnt me-thinks your children begin to play with broken pipes in stead of corals, to make way for their teeth. You will find...your bread is too heavy, and you disdain the light sustenance of herbs. Your drink is too thick, and yet you are seldom over-curious in washing your glasses.... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 386 pages
...see it grow so much in fashion, that me-thinks your children begin to play with broken pipes in stead of corals, to make way for their teeth. You will find...your bread is too heavy, and you disdain the light sustenance of herbs. Your drink is too thick, and yet you are seldom over-curious in washing your glasses.... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 384 pages
...see it grow so much in fashion, that me-thinks your children begin to play with broken pipes in stead of corals, to make way for their teeth. You will find...your bread is too heavy, and you disdain the light sustenance of herbs. Your drink is too thick, and yet you are seldom over-curious in washing your glasses.... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists - 1874 - 360 pages
...themselves." When the practice of smoking was first introduced into England, it was said children began to play with broken pipes, instead of corals, to make way for their teeth. WEATHEE WISDOM. The Jews say that the sun always shines on Wednesdays, because his birthday was on... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Tobacco - 1876 - 426 pages
...pound a year fellowes, as Canon shot to young Sea-men." smoking as " so much in fashion, that methinks your children begin to play with broken pipes instead of corals, to make way for their teeth." During the reign of Charles I., no alteration was made in the restrictive laws against tobacco. He... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Tobacco - 1876 - 392 pages
...pound a year fellowes, as Canon shot to young Sea-men." smoking as " so much in fashion, that methinks your children begin to play with broken pipes instead of corals, to make way for their teeth." During the reign of Charles I., no alteration was made in the restrictive laws against tobacco. He... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1884 - 988 pages
...fared sumptuously every day : and it had grown so much in fashion, that it was said children " began to play with broken pipes, instead of corals, to make way for their teeth." Louis XIV. endeavored just as ineffectually to discourage the use of snuff-taking. His valet» de ckambre... | |
 | W. A. Penn - Nicotine - 1901 - 358 pages
...their education. In 1634 D'Avenant had protested that smoking was ' so much in fashion that methinks your children begin to play with broken pipes instead of corals to make way for their teeth.' Thirty years later children were taught to smoke, this being chiefly due to the lesson taught by the... | |
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I thought you so ungracious as to use it in public assemblies ; and yet I see it grow so much in fashion, that methinks your children begin to play with broken pipes instead of corals, to make way for their teeth. 
