 Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry...  Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Page 91by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villicrs lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of Pleasure, and that soul of whim' Gallant and gay, iu Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 558 pages
...England Î Stanzas i. and ii. appeared in The Times of 30 Nov., 1914. CW SPALL. CLIVEDEN HOUSE. — Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love, in the third of Pope's • Moral Essays,' refers to George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham. In... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1851 - 788 pages
...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,...proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, the lord of useless thousands ends. Without... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red: Great Villiers»lies:—but ah, how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim. Gallant and gay in Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love! Or just as gay at council 'mid the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...dangling from that bedr Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red : Great Villiere lies : — but, ah, x Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ! Or just as gay at council 'mid the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 304 pages
...burst its cearments. — Hamlet, I. iv. 48. 210. alas! how charged, etc. — Adapted from Pope — " Alas ! how changed from him That life of Pleasure,...whim ! Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove." Moral Essays, III. 305-7. 212. Lord Foppington. — In Congreve's comedy, The Relapse, Lord Foppington... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 pages
...Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies l — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305 That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's* proud alcove, The bow'r of wanton Shrewsbury 3 and love ; Or just as gay, at Council, in a ring Of mimic'd Statesmen,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1904 - 762 pages
...touches arc to be found in Pope's equally famous character of Buckingham, in describing his death ; "Alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure and that soul of whim. Gallant and cay in Clcvedcn's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...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,...proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King. No wit to flatter left... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1906 - 372 pages
...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 soul of whim. A most complete picture of retribution in a moral essay, set forth in the most denunciatory lines.... | |
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