 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...floors of plaifler, 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 Villers lies f — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...of plaifter, 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 Villers lies — Alas ! how chang'd from " him, *' That life of pleafure,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung-, f ' On once a Hock-bed, but repaired with ftraw, *' With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to " draw, '« The George and Garter dangling from that C€ bed " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, " G reat Villers lies — Alas '. how chang'd... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung, ** On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with flrawt " With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to " draw, " The George and Garter dangling from that 11 bed *' Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, *' Great Villers lies — Alas! how chang'd from... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1770 - 310 pages
...floors of plaifter, 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 Villiers lies— Alas ! how changM from him, That life of pleafure, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtain's, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure, and... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300 On orce a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bedWhere tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from hirti,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...of plaifter, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, butvepair'd with ilraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow flrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies * — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305, That life of pleafure,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...floors of plaifter, 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 Great Villers lies alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
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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... 
