 | 1817 - 506 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....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... | |
 | 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 pages
...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...long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. 5. To Riches? Alas! 'tis in vain. Who hid, in their turns have been hid : The treasures are squandered... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...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?...allowed, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud. To Riches? Alas ! 'tis in vain— Who hid, in their turns have been hid — The treasures... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...before ; Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it -wore....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 - 382 pages
...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...allowed , But the long winding-sheet and the fringe and the shroud. To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain — Who hid, in their turns have been hid — The treasures... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 pages
...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...aside— " And 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—... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 500 pages
...The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it won. Shall we build to the purple of pride ; The trappings...Alas! they are all laid aside; And here's neither dreso nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud! To riches ?... | |
 | 1819 - 728 pages
...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 - 402 pages
...before — Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore....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... | |
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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... 
