| Sharon Turner - 1838 - 454 страници
...travelling, in ships, armies, shops, villages, or cities, still this self-identity, this continuous * " Odious! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke !" Were...words that poor Narcissa spoke. " No: let a charming chints and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lireless face. One need not, sure, be frightful,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1838 - 460 страници
...'twould a saint provoke !" Were Ihe last words that poor Narcissa spoke. " No : let a charming chints and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. One need not, sure, be frightful, though one's dead, And, Betty, give my cheek a little red." " I give... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 страници
...taper's end, Collects lier breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that pun" expires. " : Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation rou spoke2) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face... | |
| 1840 - 480 страници
...imperial dignity, to be strangled with a knot of silk, or to he assassinated with a golden sword ! Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke, (Were...lifeless face : One would not sure be frightful, when one 'a dead, And— Betty — give this cheek a little red. The thoughts of vanity, in the example chosen... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 страници
...taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires. For one puff more, and in that puff expires. et my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them...; I have liv'd to-day. THE CHRONICLE. A BALLAD. MA one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years... | |
| 1841 - 300 страници
...death-bed scene of a woman whose ruling passion had always been dress — 92 THE BOOK. OF BREVITIES. " Odious in woollen !* 'Twould a saint provoke, Were...No ! let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap these cold limbs, and shade this lifeless face ; One need not sure be ugly, though one's dead — And... | |
| 1842 - 584 страници
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example ; — Odious ! in woollens ! 'twould a saint provoke ! Were the last words that...lifeless face ; One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And Betty— give this cheek a little red! On the subject of « lacrymatories, » Signor... | |
| S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 страници
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example ; — Odious ! iir woollens ! 'twould a saint provoke ! . Were the last words that...lifeless face; One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And Betty — give this cheek a little red ! On the subject of « lacryraatories, •... | |
| 1842 - 586 страници
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example : — Odious! in woollens! 'twould a saint -provoke ! Were the last words that...Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face; One wuuld not, sure, be t'rightful when one's dead— And Betty — give this cheek a little red ! On the... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 страници
...taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires. For one pun" more, and in that puff expires. " Y? one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years... | |
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