 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 דפים
...first Terse of the poem is not quoted. They are a paraphrase on Matthew 17 — •t. VOL. Ill, F • " Shall we build to the purple of Pride** " The trappings...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, " But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud: « To Riches? alas! 'tis in vain— " Who hid, in... | |
 | 1819 - 384 דפים
...he frets The 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?...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 - 592 דפים
...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.... | |
 | 1819 - 382 דפים
...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 - 402 דפים
...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... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 דפים
...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 in vain — Who hide, in their turns have been hid, The treasures are squander'd again, And here in the grave are all... | |
 | 1819 - 596 דפים
...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, and the fringe of the shroud 5. To Riches ? Alas! 'tis in vain.... | |
 | 1821 - 444 דפים
...iv, p. 656, for other particulars of Saccheous. The skin which but yesterday fools could adore Fo r the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....laid aside : And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas ! 'tis in vain ;... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 דפים
...reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? Ah, no ! She forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Shall we build to the purple of Pride, — The trappings...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid, in their... | |
 | 1821 - 488 דפים
...smoothness it held, or the tints that it wore. 4 Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings that dizen the proud .' Alas ! they are all laid aside,...here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. 5 To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain, Who hid, in their... | |
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In a small narrow cave, 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... 
