 twould a saint provoke ! (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) — No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ; One would not, sure...  Random Rambles - Page 166by Louise Chandler Moulton - 1881 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Cunningham - 1873 - 398 pages
...monument Mrs. Oldfield, the actress, is buried, " in a very fine Brussclls lace head," says her maid; " a Holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace; a pair of new kid gloves, und her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the satirist:— " Odious! in woollen... | |
 | 1877 - 370 pages
...charmante Ophils (ie Oldfield), as Voltaire termed her, left directions for her body to be dressed " in a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland...with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves, and to be wrapped in a winding sheet of fine linen." This fastidiousness... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 434 pages
...direction, thus laid in her coffin ; she had on a very fine Brussels lace head; a Holland shift, with tucker and double ruffles of the same lace ; a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet." Pope has satirised this description in his " Moral Essays."... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pages
...actress, was buried with the utmost pomp in 1730, "in a very fine Brussels lace head, a Holland shift, and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped in a winding-sheet." To this Pope alludes in the lines — " Odious, in woollen !... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 pages
...actress, was buried with the utmost pomp in 1730, " in a very fine Brussels lace head, a Holland shift, and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped in a winding-sheet." To this Pope alludes in the lines — " Odious, in woollen !... | |
 | 856 pages
...th«t Mrs. Bracegirdle was even there outshone by the splendour of the womau who was buried in a "vtry fine Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland shift with...ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves," and other garments so numerous and unnecessary as to justify Pope in penning the wellknown satire of the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1879 - 426 pages
...monument Mrs. Oldficld, the actress, is buried, "in a very fine Brussells lace head," says her maid ; " a Holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace; a pair of new kid gloves, alid her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet." Hence the allusion of the satirist : — " Odious ! in... | |
 | Jacob Larwood - 1882 - 346 pages
...direction thus laid in her coffin : she had on a very fine Brussels lace head, a Holland shift, with tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped up in a winding sheet." Late in the same night she was interred in Westminster Abbey,... | |
 | 1882 - 876 pages
...elegance. Her biographer writes, " She had on a very fine Brussels lace-head, a holland shift with tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves, and her body wrapped up in a winding-sheet" The Woollen Act had prescribed the use of woollen shrouds.... | |
 | Robert Edmond Chester Waters - 1883 - 138 pages
...according to the testimony of her maid, Elizabeth Saunders, her body was by her express request dressed ' in a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a holland...with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves, and was then wrapped in a winding-sheet of fine linen.' Her posthumous... | |
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