 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...between ; The* stole to test, unhvedc J aud unseen. On once a flock-bed, hut repair1'! with strtw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The...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... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung * On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw ; The...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies. Alas ! how chang'd from hint That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | 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 - 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...that bed, " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by ftarts, and nothing long ; But, in the... | |
 | 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...that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by ftarts, and nothing long ; But, in the... | |
 | 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
...space between; 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...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... | |
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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... 
