All the colours in the rainbow Serve to spread the peacock's train; Half the lustre of his feathers Would turn twenty coxcombs vain.

'The auditors,' he was assured, 'were mostly weak, well-meaning people, who were inclined to Methodism;' but among the speakers were 'some designing villains, and a few coxcombs, with more wit than understanding.'

But indeed we had some homely coxcombs as proud as if they had persons to be proud of; at the same time that it was apparent, that the pains they took about themselves but the more exposed their defects.

'Puppy, that cursed vociferation Betrays thy life and conversation: 30 Coxcombs, an ever-noisy race, Are trumpets of their own disgrace.'

Affected fool! Coxcombs, distinguished from the rest, To all but coxcombs are a jest.'

Affected fool! Coxcombs, distinguished from the rest, To all but coxcombs are a jest.'

But let us be just enough to admit that there may be old-young coxcombs as well as old-young coquettes.

It is a trait individualizing and particularising the person at whom the more general satire is aimed; and, coupled with the infirmities of the victim's moral nature, it fastens upon poor Florio identity with "the brace of coxcombs."

But the experience of centuries should likewise have taught men, that the said father-confessors are no objects of envy; that their temptations to become spiritual coxcombs (the worst species of all coxcombs), if not intriguers, bullies, and worse, are so extreme, that the soul which is proof against them must be either very great, or very small indeed.

But the experience of centuries should likewise have taught men, that the said father-confessors are no objects of envy; that their temptations to become spiritual coxcombs (the worst species of all coxcombs), if not intriguers, bullies, and worse, are so extreme, that the soul which is proof against them must be either very great, or very small indeed.

What intolerable coxcombs we should all be if we were perfect, and could sit admiring ourselves for ever and ever!"

The sorry trash in which these coxcombs deal, Is here approved on principle, I find.

Richardson was one of those men who are not at their ease in other men's society, and whom other men, to put it plainly, are apt to regard as coxcombs and fools.

He's none of your coxcombs that go courting across the way: he's a man into the core of his heart, and as well bred as any gentleman that walks; though Goodness knows how he came by it.

Sometimes the dear creatures went for a stroll in the Mall, there to meet the English coxcombs with French manners, or else they paid a few visits.

A very prince of coxcombs, with his soft smile and conscious air of superioritya mere bag of vanity, whose emptiness is partly hidden by gorgeous raiment, gold embroidery, rings, snuff-box, muff and what-not.

It is a criminal Humility in a Person of your Holiness's Understanding, to believe you cannot excel but in the Conversation of Half-wits, Humorists, Coxcombs, and Buffoons.

But however that is, it is ordinary for a Cluster of Coxcombs to take up the House to themselves, and equally insult both the Actors and the Company.

He is, you must know, one of those familiar Coxcombs, who have observed some well-bred Men with a good Grace converse with Women, and say no fine things, but yet treat them with that sort of Respect which flows from the Heart and the Understanding, but is exerted in no Professions or Compliments.

To tell thee truly, I saw such a Tribe of Fashionable young fluttering Coxcombs shot up, that I did not think my Post of an homme de ruelle any longer tenable.

No, plague take him, He'l kiss our tails as soon; he looks upon us, As if he would say, if ye will turn again, friends, We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs.

Follow that blow, my friend, there's at your coxcombs, I fight to save me from the Surgions miseries.

Mrs. Porter and your Dumesnil surpassed him in passionate tragedy; Cibber and O'Brien were what Garrick could never reach, coxcombs, and men of fashion.

Some idle coxcombs, vain Of the nice conduct of a clouded cane, amuse themselves with switching off their lovely heads.

A Battalia Pye:Take four small chickens, four squab pigeons, four sucking rabbets; cut them in pieces, season them with savoury spice, and lay 'em in the pye, with four sweet-breads sliced, and as many sheep's-tongues, two shiver'd palates, two pair of lamb-stones, twenty or thirty coxcombs, with savoury-balls and oysters.