| British poets - 1822 - 276 pągines
...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 strove with dirty red, . Great Villiers ILes—alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and... | |
| Thomas Langdale - 1822 - 516 pągines
...walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but rcpair'd with straw, AVith tape-ty'd curtain*, never meant. U> draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty reil, Great Villiere lies— alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure and... | |
| William Kiffin - 1823 - 206 pągines
...hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung. On once a flockbed, but repsir'd with straw', With tape-ty'd curtains never meant to draw, The George...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Vittcrs lies. • Alas ! how ehang'd from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pągines
...half-hung, The floors of pi aster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, of sacred song ; but chief Thee,Sion, and the flow'ry...beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warblin strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pągines
...of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300On 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 strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pągines
...of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300 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 strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
| William Eastmead - 1824 - 536 pągines
...floors of plaister, 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 strove with dirty red, Great Villicrs lies — alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure, and... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pągines
...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 yellew strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him* That life of pleasure,... | |
| John Cole - 1825 - 122 pągines
...half-hung, The floors of plaster, 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...Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies,— alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pągines
...of plaster, and the walls of dune, ^ . 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 strove with dirty red, Great Villien lies — alas I how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
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