 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...sparrow that he sees. The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to save the hallow'd 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) " No,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...bring the jowl." The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to save the hallow'd 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), "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to save the hallow'd taper's end, CoEects 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) " No,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...e taine : [" Puis The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still tries to save the hallo w'd taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires,...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...which account, it is added, Pope introduced her in the character of Narcissa : " Odious ! in wollen ! '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... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
...imperfectly explained as this ? But we must move on. Next, then, let us come to the case of Narcissa : — " Odious! in woollen?* "Twould a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. * This refers to the Act of Parliament for burying corpses in woollen, which greatly disturbed the... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Katahdin, Mount (Me.) - 1848 - 668 pages
...colored rihhons." Who can forget Pope's lines in the Universal Passion ? " Odions in woollens, 't wonld a saint provoke. (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.) No, let a charming chintz, and Brnssels lace, Wrap my cold limhs, and shade my lifeless face : One wonld not, snre, he... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...then, let us come to the case of Narcissa : — " Odious ! in woollen? * 'T would 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... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Psychology - 1849 - 190 pages
...renew the tumults and the toils of the day." 348. Pope thus again alludes to the ruling passion : — "'Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke," Were...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...then bring the jowl." The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still tries to save the hallow'd 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 ')... | |
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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... 
