 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 Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Pàgina 371per John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1833 - 270 pàgines
...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...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies ! alas, how changed from him That life of pleasure and that soul of whim, No wit to flatter,... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pàgines
...doors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, With tupe-tiod curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red ; Great Villiers lies. • * * » No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pàgines
...plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 ( h1 once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies : alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! 306 Gallant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pàgines
...of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-hed, hut repair'd with straw, With tape-tied ld in his criticisms, and liberal in his alterations, the old scribbler hed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiera lies — alas ! how chang'd from him,... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 pàgines
...of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a Sock-bed, but repair'd with straw, Wuh i <;><•!•, M curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great yillieri lies — alas I how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim I Gallant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pàgines
...of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305 That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pàgines
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies . . . The second is the comic parable of 'Citizen Balaam' that ends the Epistle, having... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pàgines
...of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies—alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! Gallant and... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 pàgines
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim!33 Morgan... | |
 | Joseph Roach - 2007 - 284 pàgines
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies—alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! s " Bringing... | |
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