 The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?...  The Quarterly Review - Page 397edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, IJut the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. r To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain. Who hid, in their turns have heen liid, The treasures are squandered a^aiu, And here in the grave are all metals forhid, But the... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or th, tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings,...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint whichit wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas! 'tis in vain, Who... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...held, or the tint, which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizzen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches 7 Alas ! 'tis in vain,... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, — The trappings...laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. v To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we huild to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizeu the proud? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To riches? Alas 1 'tis in vain, Who... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 300 pages
...Thee, axd one for Moses, and one for Eliot." MATTHEW xvn. 4. 1. Methinks it is good to be here, If thou wilt, let us build: but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses...laid aside: And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. 5. To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
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