 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...  The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems, Tales ... - Page 232by John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...plaißer, and the 'walls of Hung, On once a foct-Ъга, but repair'd with ßra-м, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yelkiu llrove ivttb dirty red, Great Villers lies. * The ufe, the force, and the excellence of language,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...floors of plaifbr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Fillers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of Pleafure, and that foul of Whim I... | |
 | Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...half-hung, »• " The floors of plafter, and die walls of dung, " On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, " With tape-tied curtains, never meant...that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure, and that foul of whim !... | |
 | 1783 - 800 pages
...vralh ., dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd wisli draw, With tape-ty'd curtains, pever meant t<» draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow drove wilh dirly red. Great Vifliers lies— alat ! boW chang'd inclined to receive ill impreflions,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...half hung, The floors t;f plaftcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with draw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrovc with dirty red, Great Villcrs lies — alas ! how chang'd from him That life of plcafure, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...floors of plaftcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repairM with ftraw, With rape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow (trove with dirty red, Great Villers lies— -alas! how chang'd from hirrt That life of plcafurc, and... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - Thames River - 1792 - 386 pages
..." On once a flock bed, but repair'd with ftraw, " With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw j " The George and Garter dangling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, " Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, « That life of pleafure, and that foul of whim... | |
 | John Bew - 1793 - 330 pages
...once a fluck-bed, but rcpair'd with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains never meant to draw, The Ge. rge and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villiefe lie*. Alasl how chang'd from him, That life of pleafurc, and that foul of whim l Gallant... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...of plafter, and the wall» of dung, 300 On once a flnck-bed, but repair'd with draw, With tapc-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw/. The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow drove with dirty red, Great Villers lies— alas! how chang'd from him, That hfe if pleafure, and that... | |
 | William Butler - 1795 - 242 pages
...floors of plafler, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, hut repaired with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...that bed, Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great VILLIERS lies. — Alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure, .and that foul of whim... | |
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