| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebhing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires. ' Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke, (Were...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.'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 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...poor Narcissa spoke, ' No, let a charming chintz and Brussel's lace, Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and. in that pnft' expires. "Odious! in woollen! : would stows on thfe. Submit — in this, or any other sphere,...bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in lifelessfocc: " One would not, sine, be frightful when out's " dead — " And — Betty — give this... | |
| Royall Tyler - 1809 - 204 pages
...prohibited, under a penalty, and shoe-tyes interdicted by statute. You remember Pope's dying beauty: ** Odious, in woollen, 'twould a saint provoke," Were...spoke. " No! let a charming chintz and Brussels' lace " Enfold these limbs and shade this lifeless face : " One need not, sure,be ugly though one's dead;... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...ebbing life retires, for one puff more, and in that puff expires. 245 " Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke, (were the last words that poor Narcissa...•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."... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...ebbing life retires, for one puff more, and in that puff expires. 245 " Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke, (were the last words that poor Narcissa...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."... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...taper's end, Collects her breath, a»«bbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires, " Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Nareisw sptike) " No, let a charming chiutz and Brussel's lane, Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff expires. 245 " Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," (Were...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...taper's end, Colleets her hreath, as ehhing life retires, For one poff more, and in that poll' expires. 'Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," "Were the last words that poor IVnreissa spoke; 'No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lnce Wrap my cold limhs, and shade my lifeless... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 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...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."... | |
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