 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life! 65 On examination of the body, we found that death had Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle....act of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity! been occasioned by disease of the heart. Her life might " have been protracted, possibly for years,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...encircled with a string of glistening pearls. The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the 60 tinselry of fashion — the " vain show" of artificial...act of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity! 65 On examination of the body, we found that death had been occasioned by disease of the heart. Her... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...encircled with a string of glistening pearls. The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the 60 tinselry of fashion — the "vain show" of artificial...act of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity! 65 On examination of the body, we found that death had been occasioned by disease of the heart. Her... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1831 - 622 pages
...appalling. On examining the countenance more narrowly. [ thought I detected the traces of a smirk of :onceit and self-complacency, which not even the palsying...the body, which was rapidly stiffening. I attempted, butin vain, to draw a little blood from the arm. Two or three women present proceeded to remove the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...fashion, the " vain show " of artificial joy, was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! 10. Indeed, it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature'! struck deocT in the very off of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity ! 11. On examination of the body,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...and the various paraphernalia of the toilet lay scattered about — pins, brooches, curling- papers, ribands, gloves, &c. An arm-chair was drawn to this...female vanity ! She must have been dead for some time, perbaps for twenty minutes ot \xa\S. MX YUTOX, -when I arrived, for nearly all the animal heat had... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 pages
...of fashion, the "vain show" of artificial joy, was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! 10. Indeed, it was a most +humiliating and shocking +spectacle. Poor creature'! struck dead' in the very aci' of sacrificing at the '" shrine of female vanity ! 11. On examination of the body, we found that... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...fashion, the " vain show " of artificial joy, was a horrible'Thockery of the fooleries of life ! 10. Indeed, it was a most +humiliating and shocking +spectacle. Poor creature'! struck decuP in the very aci' of sacrificing at the "'" shrine of female vanity ! 11. On examination of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1856 - 320 pages
...glistening pearls. The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the kO tinselry of fashion—the "vain show" of artificial joy— was a horrible mockery...act of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity ! 16 On examination of the body, we found that death had been occasioned by disease of the heart. Her... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1856 - 586 pages
...curling-papers, ribbons, gloves, &c., An armchair was drawn to this table, and in it sat Miss J , " Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle...dead for some time, perhaps for twenty minutes or half-an-hour, when I arrived, for nearly all the animal heat had deserted the body, which was rapidly... | |
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The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the tinselry of fashion — " the vain show" of artificial joy — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature... 
