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...done Pope. The poet, Cibber explained, had once been "slyly seduced to a certain house of carnal recreation near the Haymarket" by a young nobleman who wanted to "see what sort of figure a man of [Pope's] size, sobriety and vigor (in verse) would make when the frail fit of love had got into him." Cibber, waiting in an adjoining room, became worried about Pope's health and the future of English poetry. He rushed through the door, "found this little hasty hero, like a terrible tomtit, pertly perching upon the mount of love" and pulled...
...female comics are a Miss Milgrim and a Miss Vogel, who play Mrs. Frail, a fashionable lady of little virtue and less money, and Miss Prue, Angelica's country cousin. The one is bright and fatigued; and the other, buxom and spirited, sports a North Country accent that would warm the cold heart of Albert Ramsbottom...
...Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big Sur region in a squalid cabin with five cats and five dogs. The cabin was a frail barque adrift on a sea of mud, and sometimes when Joan opened...
...stubborn men, stiffened by an antagonism as ridiculous as it was real. One was Franz-Josef Strauss, 47, West Germany's bull-bodied, bull-tempered Minister of Defense, who for all his bulk has a skin thin enough to invite puncturing. The other was Der Spiegel's frail, blond Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 39, who has seldom missed a chance to play the matador to Defense Minister Strauss's bull...
Racked by Asthma. In person, according to one acquaintance. Robinson was "far from handsome in the classic sense. An enormous head, with goggle eyes and a whopper jaw, was balanced on a frail body by means of a neck of extreme tenuity; and stooping shoulders with a long slouching gait did not add anything of grace or beauty." Yet grace and beauty were Robinson's hallmarks both as a man and as an artist. He was racked by asthma throughout his 44 years, but he let no sense of pain enter his paintings...