| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 páginas
...' Odious ! in woollen ? * 'Twould a saint provoke,' Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. ' No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my...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 - 316 páginas
...Odious ! in woollen ? 7 '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.' " Well, what's the matter now? What's amiss... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 362 páginas
...poor Narcissa spoke. 1 No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade tny lifeless face ; One would not sure be frightful when...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... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 438 páginas
..." 'Odious I in woollen? 'twould a saint provoke I' "Were the last words that poor Uarcissa spoke. ' No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace "Wrap...face ; One would not sure be frightful when one's dead.1 And, Betty, give this cheek a little red !" Betty was the ex-actress, Mrs. Saunders, who resided... | |
| Thormanby - 1907 - 372 páginas
...Odious ! in woollen I 'twould a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke : VOL. I. 7 "No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap...dead — And— Betty, give this cheek a little red." Thus arrayed, she lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, and was carried thence... | |
| 1915 - 408 páginas
..." Odious in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Nareissa spoke) ; " No ; let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap...dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red." " Poor Nareissa" after lying in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, wrapped in " a very fine Brussels lace... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1907 - 568 páginas
..." And— Betty— give this Cheek a little Red"." The Courtier smooth, who forty years had shin'il An humble servant to all human kind, Just brought..."If — where I'm going — I could serve you, Sir?" 255 "I give and I devise (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) "my lands and tenements to Ned." "Your money,... | |
| George Paston - 1909 - 430 páginas
...Thus : Odious, in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke ! (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke :) No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap...And — Betty — give this cheek a little red. The satire on Wharton8 goes home with the 1 Of these eight lines Warton remarks : " We find here an anatomy... | |
| John Fyvie - 1909 - 402 páginas
...provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) ; "No; let a charming chintz, and Brussells lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face...— And— Betty— give this cheek a little red." On the Monday following her death, her body was removed from her house in Grosvenor Street to the Jerusalem... | |
| George Paston - 1909 - 420 páginas
...Thus: 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 satire on Wharton 8 goes home with the 1 Of these... | |
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