 | 1817 - 506 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings...the proud ? Alas! they are all laid aside — And here's neitherdress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud !... | |
 | 1819 - 384 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tints which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride? The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside. And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside : And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it -wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride ; The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither drese nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 страници
...first Terse of the poem is not quoted. They are a paraphrase on Matthew 17 — •t. VOL. Ill, F • " Shall we build to the purple of Pride** " The trappings...proud ? " Alas ! they are all laid aside— " And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, " But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud:... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 страници
...comprehensive word; it embraces in its wide grasp the sum and substance of our COMMON CHRISTIANITY. Shall we build to the purple of PRIDE, — The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | 1819 - 382 страници
...yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tints which it wore. Shall webuild to the purple of Pride? The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside. And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed , But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud.... | |
 | 1819 - 596 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud f Alas ! they are all laid aside : And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 страници
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore, Shall we build to the purple of Pride, — The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are ail laid aside ; And here 's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 страници
...reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? Ah, no ! She forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Shall we build to the purple of Pride, — The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
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Ah no ! She forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride... 
