A model gentleman in Steele’s Conscious Lovers.
“Whateʹer can deck mankind,
Or charm the heart, in generous Bevil showed.”
Thomson: Winter, 654–5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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