 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...bring the jowl." The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to save the hallow'd * "Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke," (Were the lost words that poor Narcissa spoke,) " No,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1923 - 1012 pages
...lines on Mrs. Oldfield, the actress, who died 1731 : Odious! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke Г (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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...then bring the jowl." The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend , Still tries to save the hallowed taper's end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more, and in that puff e\pires. " Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 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,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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)... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Guilds - 1926 - 376 pages
...Holland shift with tucker, and double ruffles of the same lace and a pair of new kid gloves. " Odious I in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke ! " Were the...words that poor Narcissa spoke. " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace, Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face." But the property of the Drapers'... | |
 | Joseph Adelman - Women - 1928 - 344 pages
...body wrapped in a winding sheet. This elicited from Pope the well-known lines : "Odious ! in woolen ! '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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, 240 For one puff more, and in that puff expires. '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: 245 One would not, sure,... | |
 | William Edward Tate - Architecture - 1969 - 408 pages
...legislation. Pope's Narcissa (Nance Oldfield) objected very emphatically to the idea of burial in woollen :31 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1899 - 710 pages
...the last by her friend, an ex-actress, Mrs. Saunders, the Betty of Pope's somewhat spiteful lines : ' 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... | |
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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... 
