 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...floors of pi aster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd ; but chief Thee,Sion, and the flow'ry brooks 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... | |
 | William Eastmead - Caves - 1824 - 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, Great Villicrs lies — alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...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 - Scarborough (England) - 1825 - 122 pages
...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 and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies,— alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaiiM 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 changed from him, That life of pleasure and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...plaster, and the walls of dung, On onee a floek-hed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd eurtains, nor ever thenee Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alns! how ehang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...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 and Garter dangling from that b«-\ Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas, how changM from fan?.... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...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 and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiert lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...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 and Garter dangling from that bed Where tan-dry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villitrt lies — alasl how chang'd from him, That life... | |
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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... 
