 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...taper's end, Colleets her breuth, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires. " eral's voiee they soon obey'd, Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's Nareissa spoke) No, let a eharming ehintz, and Urussels l:iee, Wrap my eold limbs, and shade my lifeless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...' Odious ! iu woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke/ Were th« last werds that poor Narcissa spoke ; v No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my...lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.' 251 The courtier smooth, who forty... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 Seiten
...due to him. CHINTS, ni Cloth of cotton made in India, and printed with colors. Let a charming chinis, and Brussels lace, Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face. Pope. C111O, or CHIOS, an Asiatic island, lying near liio coast of Niilolia. opposite to Ionia It was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...taper's end, Collect» her breath, as ebbing life retire», For one puff more, and in that puff expires. 7J7}* 2 Narciesa »poke ; 'No, let « charming chintz and Brussels lace Wnp my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless... | |
 | 1832 - 606 Seiten
...death scene of a woman, whose ruling passion had always been dress. " Odious ! in woolen ! — "t would a saint provoke " — Were the last words that poor...No; let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace, " Wrap these cold limbs, and shade this lifeless face ; " One need not sure be ugly, tho" one 'B dead —... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 Seiten
...imperial dignity, to be strangled with a knot of silk, or to be assassinated with a golden sword ! Odious! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke, (Were...lifeless face : One would not sure be frightful, when one's dead, And — Betty — give this cheek a little red. The thoughts of vanity, in the example... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires. ' ": *k* *k* )k* one's deadAnd — Betty — give this cheek a little red.' 25 The courtier smooth, who forty years... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 Seiten
...taper's end,. Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires. . For one puff more, and in that puff expires. 'Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke,' Were...chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade ray tifel«ss face r One would not, sure, be frightful wfien one's dead — And— Betty— give this... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 Seiten
...and he concluded by asserting that those lines of Pope on Narcissa were by no means a caricature. " Odious in woollen, 'twould a saint provoke, Were the...limbs, and shade my lifeless face. One would not sure look frightful when one's dead — And Betty, give this cheek a little red." With this sally the Doctor... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 204 Seiten
...and he concluded by asserting that those lines of Pope on Narcissa were by no means a caricature. " Odious in woollen, 'twould a saint provoke, Were the...Narcissa spoke. No! let a charming chintz, and Brussels lice Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face. One would not sure look frightful when one's dead—... | |
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twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give... 
