...he passes off upon the public for a face ! and then think of the " fair Ophelia," characterizing him as "the glass of fashion and the mould of form — the observed of all observers !" — " It is too much !" Yet these things were. And players are not singular in those obliquities...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword ; 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 sucked the honey of his music...

...was not in England during any part of her transcendantly brilliant career, when she was ' The glnss of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers.' For then I was fighting, with my gallant countrymen, against the Russian tyrant ; and our beloved companion,...

...may still remember the portrait with which he then favoured us of himself:— self : — ' the glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of all observers ' — that pensive melancholy, tinged with a sarcastic bitterness of smile — that restless glance...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword: 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...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's!, cyo, ton(jno, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers. | dolph II. on the death of his father, but »i:h | secret instructions to bring about a union of tic...

...begin to sing some fragments of his verses. " O, what a noble mind was here o'erthrown ! The glass of fashion and the mould of form ! The observed of all observers! quite, quite down! That noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tu e and...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers !" Then too might we understand the delicate and hidden satire in that comparison which he makes between...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The e'xpectancy 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...

...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword ; 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 sucked the honey of his music...