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" Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look... "
The Works of Thomas Hood...: Complete poetical works - Page 146
by Thomas Hood - 1861
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Sunshine in the workhouse

Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 pages
...Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smoothe, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing, Fix'd on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...impurity, As when with the daring Last luok of despairing Fix'd on futurity. "Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast 1 '* Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour !"...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smoothe, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring...Burning insanity, Into her rest. — Cross her hands humhly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast ! Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving,...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 302 pages
...brink of it, Picture it — think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Smooth, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them,...hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast I Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! EVENING...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them,...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing i Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Bre her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them,...blindly ! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when^with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 8

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...impurity, As when with the dnring Last look of despairing Kii'd on futurity. " Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...her rest. — Cross her hands humbly, As if praying dumblv, Over her breast ! " Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her...
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Volume 7

Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 pages
...too rigidly, Decently,— kindly,— Smooth, and compose them ; J6nd her eyes, close them, Staring BO blindly] Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity,...inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest*— Cross her bands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast I Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And...
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Prose and verse

Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 pages
...Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,—kindly,— Smoothe, and compose them ; Ana her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, j As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 6

430 pages
...slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly. Decently,— kindly, — Smooth, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them. Staring so blindly I Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fix'd...
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