 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 362 pages
...poor Narcissa spoke. 1 No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade tny lifeless face ; One would not sure be frightful when...dead : And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.' " Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1864 - 696 pages
...saint provoke." Were the laut worda that Narclesa spoke. " \" ; let a charming chkitz and Brussels laco Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face ; One...frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this check a little red." ' Unfortunately, a letter for Lord Coventry was brought in to her, the handwriting... | |
 | George Dennis, John Murray (Firm) - 1864 - 664 pages
...and, but for the chapless jaws, reminding one of the expostulation of the fine lady in Pope : — " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead ; And, Betty, give this cheek a little red." SICILIAN VESPERS. — This site will ever be memorable in the annals of Sicily as the spot where the... | |
 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...given by Pope, mingle a little truth with much error and exaggeration : — " ' Odious ! in woollen ? 'twould a saint provoke !' Were the last words that...one's dead. And Betty, give this cheek a little red ! ' " Betty was the ex-actress, Mrs. Saunders, who resided with Narcissa. She had quitted the stage... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 436 pages
...exaggeration : — "'Odious! in woollen? 'twould a saint provoke 1' Were the last words that poor STarcissa spoke. ' No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace...one's dead.' And, Betty, give this cheek a little red 1" Betty was the ex-actress, Mrs. Saunders, who resided with Narcissa. She had quitted the stage in... | |
 | Buckham Hugh Hossack - 1900 - 550 pages
...provoke (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke). No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace AVrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face ; One would...: And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The mortcloth, which covered the coffin in its carriage from the house to the grave, was provided by... | |
 | Theodore Low De Vinne - 1901 - 498 pages
...obtain a mastery over the mind, is described in Pope's ' Moral Essays ' thus : " ' Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that...dead, — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.' " " ' I give and I devise,' old Euelio said, And sigh'd, ' my lands and tenements to Ned.' — ' Your... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...to be strangled with a knot of silk, or to be assassinated with a golden sword! Odious! in woolen! 'twould a saint provoke, (Were the last words that...And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.» The example chosen by the poet extended to appearances after death; for the presence of the same weakness... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 506 pages
...breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires. " Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," Were the last words that...— And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years had shined An humble servant to all humankind, Just brought out... | |
 | Emily Tennyson Bradley Smith ("Mrs. A. Murray Smith."), Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1902 - 504 pages
...an ex-actress, Mrs. Saunders, the Betty of Pope's somewhat spiteful lines — " Odious, in woollen 'twould a saint provoke, (Were the last words that...dead — And Betty, give this cheek a little red." Mrs. Oldfield piqued herself on her taste in dress, and she was laid in state in the Jerusalem Chamber,... | |
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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 cheek a... 
