In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow... The Works of the British Poets - Seite 112von Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 Seiten
...The floors of plainer, and the walls of d On once ayfovf-bed, but repair'd withdraw, With topt-tj'4 curtains, never meant to draw, The. George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow flrove with dirty rtdt Great Villers lies %. THE ufe, the force, and the excellence • " He muft have... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 Seiten
...plaißer, and the 'walls of Hung, On once a foct-Ъга, but repair'd with ßra-м, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yelkiu llrove ivttb dirty red, Great Villers lies. * The ufe, the force, and the excellence of language,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 Seiten
...floors of plaifbr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Fillers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of Pleafure, and... | |
| 1784 - 778 Seiten
...of plafter, and die walls of dung, " On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, " With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, " The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
| 1783 - 800 Seiten
...vralh ., dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd wisli draw, With tape-ty'd curtains, pever meant t<» draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow drove wilh dirly red. Great Vifliers lies— alat ! boW chang'd inclined to receive ill impreflions, he,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 Seiten
...floors t;f plaftcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with draw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrovc with dirty red, Great Villcrs lies — alas ! how chang'd from him That life of plcafure, and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 Seiten
...floors of plaftcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repairM with ftraw, With rape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow (trove with dirty red, Great Villers lies— -alas! how chang'd from hirrt That life of plcafurc, and... | |
| Samuel Ireland - 1792 - 386 Seiten
...George and Garter dangling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, " Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, « That life of pleafure, and that foul of whim ! " Gallant and gay, in Cliefden's proud alcove, " The bow'r of wanton Shrewfbury and... | |
| 1794 - 918 Seiten
...of plafter, and the wall» of dung, 300 On once a flnck-bed, but repair'd with draw, With tapc-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw/. The George and Garter...Great Villers lies— alas! how chang'd from him, That hfe if pleafure, and that foul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower ef... | |
| William Butler - 1795 - 242 Seiten
...floors of plafler, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, hut repaired with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great VILLIERS lies. — Alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
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