 | Joseph Hamilton (of Dublin.) - Dueling - 1829 - 266 pages
...floors of plaster, 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 Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him ; That life of pleasure,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...of plaster, and the walls of dung, JOf On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw. With tape-tied oodward strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him. That life of Pleasure,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies * — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 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, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red ; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 270 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 Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies ! alas, how changed from him That life of pleasure and that... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red ; Great Villiers lies. • * * » No wit to flatter left of all his store, No... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...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 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 - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great yillieri lies — alas I how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...floors of plaster, 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 Villiers lies! — Alas I how changed 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... 
