 | John Booker - 1854 - 268 Seiten
...of Men, where it is made to furnish an apt illustration of the ruling passion strong in death : " ' Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke,' (Were the last words that poor Karcissa spoke :) ' No, let a charming chintz and Sruuels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 568 Seiten
...imperial dignity, to be strangled with a knot of silk, or to be assassinated with a golden sword ! Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke, (Were...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 Seiten
...and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves," &c. ; to which Pope thus alludes : " Odious! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke. (Were...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...but their prize a sot ; Alive, ridieulous ; and dead, forgot ! Pope's Moral EwyCORPULENCE. Odioos! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke, 'Were the last words that poor Nareissa spoke) - No, let a eharming ehintz, and Brussels laee, " Wrap my eold limbs, and shade my... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...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...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—... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 324 Seiten
...move on. Next, then, let us come to the case of Narcissa : — " ' Odious ! in woollen ? 7 'T would 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... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1856 - 382 Seiten
...winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the satirist : — " Odious ! in woollen ; 'twould a saint provoke 1 (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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 Seiten
...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 2 spoke), ' No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 Seiten
...of legislation is perpetuated by Pope, in the last words of his Narcissa : — Odious, in woollen I 'twould a saint provoke ! Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. Thus the Lord Chancellor's woolsack ought to serve as a perpetual memento to its occupier, admonishing... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1911 - 596 Seiten
...of the ' same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped in ' a winding-sheet.' ' Odious I in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke,' Were the last...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... | |
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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... 
