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" The charms that she wielded 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. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 383
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

1826 - 450 pages
...here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, IJut the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. r To Riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain. Who hid, in their turns have heen liid, The treasures are squandered a^aiu, And here in the grave are all metals forhid, But the...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 1

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 498 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 1

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 430 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1828 - 422 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or th, tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings,...aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who hid...
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The Sacred Lyre: Comprising Poems, Devotional, Moral and Preceptive ...

1828 - 398 pages
...skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint whichit wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid 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, Who...
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Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended ...

Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...held, or the tint, which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizzen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. To riches 7 Alas ! 'tis in vain,...
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The Christian's sketch book

Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, — The trappings...laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. v To Riches ? Alas, 'tis in vain...
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Moral and Sacred Poetry

Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we huild to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizeu the proud? Alas! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To riches? Alas 1 'tis in vain, Who...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd Save the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas, 'tis in vain ; Who...
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The African Repository, Volume 10

1834 - 450 pages
...appear, But the shadows of eve that encompass the gloom, The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb. Shall we build to Ambition? Oh, no! Affrighted, he...laid aside: And here's neither dress nor adornment allow 'd, But the long winding sheet, and the fringe of the shroud. 5To riches? Alas! 'tis in vain...
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