 And her physician had prescribed for her Jellies and wines and cheerful Literature. The book on the Apocalypse was writ By her chosen pastor, and she took the novel With the dry sherry, and the pills prescribed. A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of...  Olrig Grange - Page 71by Walter Chalmers Smith - 1879 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Chalmers Smith - 1872 - 234 pages
...Beside her, on a table round, inlaid With precious stones by Roman art designed, Lay phials, scents, a novel and a Bible, A pill box, and a wine glass,...then She comforted her heart, which needed it, With bric-a-brac and jelly and old wine. Beside the fire, her elbow on the mantle, And forehead resting... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1872 - 786 pages
...stones by Roman art designed, Lay phials, scents, a novel and a Bible, A pill-box and a wine-glass, and a book On the Apocalypse ; for she was much Addicted...lived; and all the sins Of all her house, and all the nations's sins, And all shortcomings of the Church and State, And all the sins of all the world beside,... | |
 | Universalism - 1872 - 980 pages
...to misery In this sad vale of tears, but fully meant To nurse her sorrow in a sumptuous fashion. — A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she...sins And all shortcomings of the Church and State Bore as her special cross, confessing them Vicariously day by day, and then She comforted her heart,... | |
 | 1879 - 884 pages
...of selfishness, piety, weariness, and worldliness. She lives upon pride and prayers and pills : — A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she...then She comforted her heart, which needed it, With bric-a-brac and jelly and old wine. As we see her, she is surrounded by her phials and scents, her... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1879 - 1410 pages
...of selfishness, piety, weariness, and worldliness. She lives upon pride and prayers and pills : — A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she...shortcomings of the Church and State, And all the sins of nil the world beside, Bore as her special cross, confessing them Vicariously day by day, and then She... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...was writ By her chosen pastor, and she took the novel With the dry sherry, and the pills prescrib'd. A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she...then She comforted her heart, which needed it, With bric-a-brac and jelly and old wine. Beside the fire, her elbow on the mantel, And forehead resting... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...prescrib'd. A gorgeous, pious, comfortable life Of misery she lived ; and all the sins Of all her bouse, and all the nation's sins, And all shortcomings of...then She comforted her heart, which needed it, With bric-a-brac and jelly and old wine. Beside the fire, her elbow on the mantel, And forehead resting... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 712 pages
...Addicted unto physic and religion,' who lived a gorgeous, pious, comfortable life of sentimental misery, ' And all the sins Of all her house, and all the nation's sins, And all the shortcomings of Church and State, And all the sins of all the world beside, Bore as her special... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1872 - 778 pages
...pious, comfortable life Of misery she lived ; and all the sins Of all her house, and all the nations'* sins, And all shortcomings of the Church and State,...then She comforted her heart, which needed it. With bric-a-brac and jelly and old wine. She calls up Rose, and talks to her about the sins of the age and... | |
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