 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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—... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1838 - 454 pages
...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 pages
...'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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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 this... 
