| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...Odious in woollens, 'twould a &aint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke). 3STo, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace, Wrap my...face; One would not, sure, be frightful when one's d'jad, And—Betty—give this cheek a little red." Said to be actually true of Mrs. Oldfield, the... | |
| Robert Carruthers - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...Wharton, " the scorn and wonder of our days," and the dying vanity of Mrs. Oldfield the actress : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead, And— Betty— give this cheek a little red." Pope was at Lord Bathurst's in September, 1733, and he wrote from thence to Martha... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...' " Odious in woollen ! 'twould n saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) : " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my...limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One would not sure he frightful when one's dead ; — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." ' For ' Betty '... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 412
..." Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ; " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my...lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one "s dead, — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years... | |
| Beatrice Home - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...rival of Anne Bracegirdle), who insisted on being as elegantly attired for her last rest as in life. No; let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face. POPE. Dr. Francis Atterbury (died 1732), the Jacobite Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...245 "Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a Saint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) No, let a charming Chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap...when one's dead — «<• And— Betty— give this Cheek a little Red." The Courtier smooth, who forty years had shin'd An humble servant to all human... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...*« "Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a Saint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) No, let a charming Chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap...One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — *& And— Betty— give this Cheek a little Red." The Courtier smooth, who forty years had shin'd... | |
| Parakunnel Joseph Thomas - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...mention chintz and other Indian cloths. See, for instance, Pope, Moral Essays, I, 248 (circa 1733) : " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my life-less face." Elsewhere : " And, when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a Chintz exceeds Mohair."... | |
| William Henry Irving - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...Saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), • (Ed. Warton), III, 207, 1. 246. "No, let a charming Chintz and Brussels lace Wrap...frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this Cheek a little Red." ' Johnson, as one would expect, enters with full sympathy into Juvenal's advocacy... | |
| Joseph Adelman - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...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...frightful when one's dead, And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." ROSALBA CARRIERA Rosalba Camera (1675-1757), an Italian miniature and portrait... | |
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