The Prince and Princess of Wales not only subscribed, but gave him a liberal present, and some of the nobility, who regarded him as an agreeable plaything and lapdog of genius, took a number of copies.

The poem is still well worth reading; for as an expression of the artificial life of the ageof its cards, parties, toilettes, lapdogs, tea-drinking, snuff-taking, and idle vanitiesit is as perfect in its way as Tamburlaine, which reflects the boundless ambition of the Elizabethans.

de Meulan, M. Guizot's sister-in-law, who saw through the whole, and laughed over it with her friends; no end of little dancing matinées were got up for the Minister's young daughters, and no end even of sweet biscuits were perpetually provided for a certain lapdog belonging to the family!

He suggested vividly a spoiled and pretty lapdog being sternly conveyed to a detested bath.

"You don't go hunting grizzlies with a pack of lapdogs, an' you've got to expect to lose some of them sooner or later.

Under proper treatment he is no more delicate than any other toy dog, and his engaging manners and cleanliness of habit ought to place him among the most favoured of lady's pets and lapdogs.

Mary was exacting, howeverI told you she had been spoiledand Archie wasn't the sort to be led about on a string like a lapdog; so naturally they quarrelled.

"I told you that he was a man and not a lapdog.

The mistress of Catullus wept for her sparrow many centuries ago, and lapdogs will be sometimes sick in the present age.

He must remain coy in his nook within the wall till he might see the lady's lapdog run across the orchard.

They had not tarried long in the garden, when the Duke saw his niece's lapdog run straight to that end of the orchard where the knight was hidden.

Of his six examples, Johnson, our only acknowledged standard, gives the first and third without any separation between the syllables, lapdog, preexistence; his second and fifth as two distinct words each, tea pot, to morrow; and his sixth as three words, mother in law: so that only his fourth has the sanction of the lexicographer.

Little collars I was thinking to buckle around their neck the same as a lady's lapdog, and maybe so far as a small clear-sounding bell.

You find one out in the cold, take it up and nurse it and make everything of it, dress it up warm, give it all sorts of balsams and other food it likes, and carry it round in your bosom as if it were a miniature lapdog.

'Well, then,' said his lordship, 'I dare say you have got a lapdog or a broken fan; I don't think I could soar above them.

"Has a lapdog that yaps.

She called me often to ride beside her, Helene being on my other side, while the Lubber Fiend, who had saved all our lives, gambolled about and came to her to be petted like a lapdog of some monstrous sort.

We heed not the idle bark of these full-fed court lapdogs.

These included a masseuse, a manicurist, and a maid to look after the lapdogs.

Not only was the fable of the judgment of Paris engraved on the latter, but also that of the jealous donkey, who, imitating his master's lapdog, and trying to climb into his lap, received nothing but blows.