 ... and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty? ah, no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness...  Varieties in woman, a novel - Strona 98autor: Varieties - 1819Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1817 - Liczba stron: 506
...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...proud ? Alas! they are all laid aside — And here's neitherdress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud ! To Riches... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 384
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tints which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride? The trappings...laid aside. And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud. To Riches? Alas ! 'tis in vain—... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - Liczba stron: 592
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid aside : And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. 5. To Riches? Alas! 'tis in vain.... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - Liczba stron: 444
...comprehensive word; it embraces in its wide grasp the sum and substance of our COMMON CHRISTIANITY. Shall we build to the purple of PRIDE, — The trappings...they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornments allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To RICHES? alas! 'tis... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - Liczba stron: 504
...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...Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither drese nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud t To riches ?... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 382
...yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, and the tints which it wore. Shall webuild to the purple of Pride? The trappings which dizen...laid aside. And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed , But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 728
...stanzas is given to connect the others with the original. The pencil of »ome future HOCA»TH. shal, I P Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornments allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud.... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 728
...trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here 's neither dress nor adornments allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? alas, 'tis in vaio ; Who bid in their turns have been hid, The treasures are squander'd again ; And here in the grave... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 402
...held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride — The trappings which diz'n the proud; Alas ! they are all laid aside — And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd Bnt the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shrowd ! • To Biches? Alas ! 'tis in vain — Who... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 596
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. 4. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud f Alas ! they are all laid aside : And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet,... | |
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