...words that poor Narcissa spoke. ; This refers to the Act of Parliament, then recent, for burying ' 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...

...that the satirist alluded as the bdy who detested being buried in woollen, who said to her ihaid — " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my...frightful when one's dead, And — Betty — give this check a little red." She was but forty-seven when she died on the 23rd of October 1730, leaving all...

...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...would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead, And, Betty—give this cheek a little red." The seventh verse is devoted to " L d T y," the eighth to "...

...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...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...

...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 little...who forty years had shin'd An humble servant to all humankind, Just brought out this, when scarce his tongue could stir ; ' If — where I'm going —...

...lines : "Odious! In woolen? Twould a saint provoke I" 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 redl" Essay, i, 1. 246. Pope here alludes to the current story that Nance Oldfield, the famous actress...

...lines : "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 I And, Betty, give this cheek a little red!" Essay, i, 1. 246. Pope here alludes to the current story...

...Odious ! In woollen ! "Twould a saint provoke ! " Were the hist words that poor Narcissa spoke. " No t Let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold...and shade my lifeless face. One would not sure be fruitful when one's dead. And Betty gives this cheek a little red." Notwithstanding the Act, people...

...expires. "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...little red." The courtier smooth, who forty years had shined An humble servant to all humankind. Just brought out this, when scarce his tongue could stir,...

...Narcissa's: "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." • Sometimes Pope's faculty of proverb-making takes a loftier flight, as in the famous epitaph intended...