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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... "
The Literary Journal - Seite 303
1821
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A History of the Ancient Chapel of Blackley, in Manchester Parish: Including ...

John Booker - 1854 - 268 Seiten
...spoke :) ' No, let a charming chintz and Sruuels 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 little red.' " Dryden, too, in the prologue to his tragedy of (Edipus, first published in 1679, the year in which...
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A Week's Delight, Or, Games and Stories for the Parlor and Fireside

Emily Mayer Higgins - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...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 little red.' And now, can you tell me who was that prophet that sent a letter to the husband of ' the good grandmother,'...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Band 43

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 708 Seiten
...a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shude my lifeless face; One would riot sure be frightful wh'en one's dead — And BETTY, give this cheek a little red.' I think it is a great pity that people cannot be made to look upon these things with a more philosophic...
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Literary and Historical Miscellanies

George Bancroft - 1855 - 568 Seiten
...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 little red. The example chosen by the poet, extended to appearances after death; for the presence of the same weakness...
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Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ...

John Timbs - 1855 - 818 Seiten
...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 little red." Eastward is the sculptural burlesque deservedly known as "the Pancake Monument," to Admiral Tyrrell,...
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Literary and Historical Miscellanies

George Bancroft - 1855 - 554 Seiten
...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 little red. » t The example chosen by the poet, extended to appearances after death ; for the presence of the...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 Seiten
...Xo, let a eharming ehintz, and Brussels laee, •' Wrap my eold limbs, and shade my lifeless faee : "One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — •And — Betty — give this eheek a little red." Pope's Moral Essays. With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, " what ean...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...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 little red.' The courtier smooth, who forty years had shined An humble servant to all human-kind, Just brought out this,...
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The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence

Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...Wharton, " the scorn and wonder of our days," and the dying vanity of Mrs. Oldfield the actress : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead, And— Betty— give this cheek a little red." Pope was at Lord Bathurst's in September, 1733, and he wrote from thence to Martha Blount, — " You...
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ...

Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 Seiten
...charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One would not sure he frightful when one's dead ; — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." ' For ' Betty ' read Las Casas or Montholon, and the parallel is complete. In April, 1806, he wrote...
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