Quarterly Retrospect
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January, 1861. " If this city, or the suburbs of the same, do afford any young gentle" man, of the first, second, or third head, more or less, whose friends are "but lately deceased, and whose lands are but now come into his hands, " that (to be as exactly qualified as the best of our ordinary gallants " are) is affected to entertain the most gentleman-like use of tobacco; " as first, to give it the most exquisite perfume ; then to know all the " delicate sweet forms for the assumption of it; as also the rare corollary "and practice of the Cuban ebolition, euripus, and whiff; which lie " shall receive or take in here at London, and evaporate at Uxbridge, or "farther, if it please him. If there be any such generous spirit, that is " truly enamoured of these good faculties : may it please him, but (by a " note of his hand) to specify the place or ordinary where he uses to eat "and lie; and most sweet attendance, with tobacco and pipes of the "best sort shall be ministered : Stet, quceso, candide Lector We commend this advertisement of Master Shift, otherwise Signior Whiff, to the Shifts of our own day in the present stage of the so-called " Great Tobacco Controversy." Why should the aesthetics of tobacco-smoking be suffered to lie dormant P Their cultivation would afford a grand field for a man of genius. The pipe, that " Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of our warm desire, Lip of wax and eye of fire,"
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