 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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 the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ; 1 No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...kid gloves, and her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the satirist : — " Odious ! in woollen ; 'twould a saint provoke ! (Were...One would not, sure, be frightful when one 's dead — • And— Betty— give this cheek a little red."— Ape. Under the organ-screen — Monuments... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...gloves, and her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the satirist : — " Odious 1 in woollen ; 'twould a saint provoke ! (Were the last...One would not, sure, be frightful when one 's dead — And— Betty— give this cheek a little red." — Pope. Under the organ-screen — Monuments to... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...&c. ; circumstances which Pope has made the most of in his lines — " Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke ! (Were the last words that poor Narcissa...lifeless face ; One would not, sure, be frightful when one'a dead ! And — Betty — give this check a little red." This was, perhaps, a fair mark : but,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the •atirist : — " Odious I in woollen ; 'twould a saint provoke I (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) —...One would not, sure, be frightful when one 's dead — And— Betty— give this cheek a little red."— Pope. Cnder the organ-screen — Monuments to... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 872 pages
...Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke ! (Were tlio last words that poor Narcissa spoke.) Ko, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold...lifeless face ; One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead ! And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." This was, perhaps, a fair mark : but,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 pages
...provoke 1 (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spuke) — No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lacu 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."— Pope. Under the organ-screen — Monuments to... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...master hand:— "' Odious! in woollen! 'twould a paint provoke!' Were the last words that poor Narcipsa spoke. • No! let a charming chintz and brussels...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.'" The poor,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1851 - 444 pages
...dress! To this eccentricity Pope alludes when addressing Narcissa,— " ' Odious! in woollens,—'twould a saint provoke!' Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke: ' No; let a charming chintz and Brussels lac« Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face.' " ESSAY I., 1. 245. " Flavia," says Steele,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 600 pages
...strong in death " is drawn in another picture, equally true and graphic, by the same master hand : — "'Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke!' Were the last words that poor Narcipsa spoke. ' No ! let a. charming chintz and brussels lace Wrap my oold limbs, and shade my lifeless... | |
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