 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 trang
...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...— And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years had shined An humble servant to all humankind, Just brought out... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 trang
...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...dead—- And— Betty— give this cheek a little red.' 251 The courtier smooth, who forty years had shined An humble servant to all human kind, Just brought... | |
 | 1860 - 1068 trang
...spuke; No, let a charming chintz and llrusscls lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless lace. One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.11 INCBEASE OP тпв NATIONAL EXPENDITFBF. — According to a parliamentary paper, the expenditure... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 trang
...charming chintz and Brussels lac« Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One would not, sine, be frightful when one's dead— And — Betty — give this cheek a little red. Though like so many of my quotations, very well known, I feel no account of Pope's forecast of the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 366 trang
...so imperfectly explained as this ? Next comes the case of Narcissa :— " ' Odious ! in woollen ? * 'Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that...dead: And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.'" Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 trang
...so imperfectly explained as this ? Next comes the case of Narcissa : — " ' Odious ! in woollen ? * 'Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that...dead : And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.' " Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 trang
...Odious! in woollen?* "Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. ' No, lot a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs...dead: And, Betty, give this cheek a little red."" Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 trang
...so imperfectly explained as this f Next comes the case of Narcissa : — " ' Odious ! in woollen ? * 'Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that...dead : And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.' " Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 358 trang
...so imperfectly explained as this ? Next comes the case of Narcissa : — " ' Odious ! in woollen ? * 'Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that...dead : And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.' " Well, what's the matter now ? What's amiss with Narcissa, that a satirist must be called in to hold... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 trang
...expires. " Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa 8 spoke) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace...— And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." 1 An ancient nobleman, who continued this practice long after his legs were disabled by the gout. 2... | |
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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 cheek a... 
