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 3031821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 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... | |
| 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,'... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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