 | Child rearing - 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...spoke ! 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 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 Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pages
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example ; — Odious ! in woollens ! 'twould a saint provoke ! Were the last words that...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—... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example ; — Odious ! iir woollens ! 'twould a saint provoke ! . Were the last words that...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—... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 586 pages
...anticipated! his satire justified! — which it is by many a kindred example : — Odious! in woollens! 'twould a saint -provoke ! Were the last words that...spoke ! No ! let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face; One wuuld not, sure, be t'rightful when one's dead—... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires. For one pun" more, and in that puff expires. " Y? Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...travelling, in ships, armies, ahops, 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 lifeless lace. One need not, sure, be frightful,... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - Europe - 1845 - 474 pages
...Those coloured Caryatides I cannot endure, they so ludicrously recall Pope's lines on Mrs. Clive, " Odious ! in woollen 'twould a saint provoke !" Were...poor Narcissa spoke. " No, let a charming chintz and Brussell's lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. One would not sure be frightful when... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - Europe - 1845 - 492 pages
...Those coloured Caryatides I cannot endure, they so ludicrously recall Pope's lines on Mrs. Clive, " Odious ! in woollen 'twould a saint provoke !" Were...poor Narcissa spoke. " No, let a charming chintz and Brussell's lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. One would not sure be frightful when... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 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...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... | |
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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... 
