 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...! Vcr. 28". Thus in the MS. On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw. With tape-ty'd curtain*, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red,^ Great Villers lies — alas how chanted from him. That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...floors of plaifter, and the walls of dung; On once a flock-bed, but repaired with flraw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by ftarts, and nothing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung; " On once a flock-bed, but repaired 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 ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by ftarts, and nothing... | |
 | Thomas Hinderwell - Scarborough (England) - 1811 - 458 pages
...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, \Vhere tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, • Great Villiers lies — alas! how chang'd from him,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Then stole to rest, unheeded and unseen. On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...walls of duns;, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape tied mi-tains never meant io draw ; The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lits — Aliis ! how ehang'd fiom him, That life of pleasure... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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 — Gregt ViLLiERS lies: alas,! ho* changed, from. him, That life of pleasure,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed but repaired 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 VILHEHS lies: alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 pages
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but rcpaii'd with straw, With tape-ty'd 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, and... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - England - 1820 - 516 pages
...of plaster and the walls of dung, " On once a flock-hed, 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... | |
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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... 
