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" His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ; Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When... "
Werner. The deformed transformed. Heaven and earth. The island. Poems - Page 313
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...Opposed its vapour as the lightning flash'd, And reek'd, 'midst mountain billows, unabash'd, To ^Eolus h always led you \vliat was he who bore it ? — I may err, But deem him sailor or philosopher.* Sublime tob.icco !...
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Cigarette Papers for After-dinner Smoking

Joseph Hatton - 1892 - 332 pages
...awnings of lazy canoes in Eastern seas, silent companions of weary travellers ; useful adjuncts to — " Sublime tobacco, which from East to West Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest." Not as a matter of pride, but as a piece of interesting information, I deem it right to give you what...
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Long Casts and Sure Rises: Being a Collection of Angling "Yarns" and Experiences

Edgar S. Shrubsole - 1893 - 186 pages
...adventures, the while the smoke from our pipes curls upward — for we are both ardent devotees of Sublime tobacco, which from East to West Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ! I recount to my friend two experiences — rather out-of-the-way, inasmuch as they happened on extra-extraordinary...
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Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry

1895 - 220 pages
...Opposed its vapor as the lightning flash'd, And reek'd, 'midst mountain billows unabashed, To yEolus a constant sacrifice, Through every change of all...tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opiums and...
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Quotations for Occasions

1896 - 244 pages
...Lamb, FAREWELL TO TOBACCO. A noiseless wing To Waft me from distraction. Byrm, CHILDE HAROLD, iii, 85. Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. Byron, THE ISLAND, ii. Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe . . . Yet thy true lovers more admire by...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 74

David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1896 - 536 pages
...of poetic fancy. Does he wish to learn of the Moslem sage the origin of the weed whose balmy breath From East to West Cheers the tar's labour, or the Turkman's rest ? Let him listen to his words as he relates how the Prophet, walking in his garden at early dawn, came...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 5

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 694 pages
...the varying skies. And what was he who bore it ? — I may err, But deem him sailor or philosopher.2 Sublime Tobacco ! which from East to West Cheers the...Turkman's rest ; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides 45° His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...bones. Age of Bronze. Stanza 3. I loved my country, and I hated him. The Vition of Judgment. Ixxxiii. Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19. Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow,...
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The Banquet Book: A Classified Collection of Quotations Designed for General ...

Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pages
...The pipe with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough. COWPER, Conversation. Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. BYRON, The Island. Canto ii. Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctors' spite ; Thy...
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THE WINGS OF THE MORNING

LOUS TRACY - 1903 - 368 pages
...produced a steel box, tightly closed, and a pipe. "I will answer you in Byron's words," he said— '"Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.' " "Your pockets are absolute shops," said the girl, delighted that his temper had improved. "What other...
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