 | Several Hands - 1759 - 602 pages
...following piclurefqut lines : In the word inn's worfl room, with mat half hung The floors of plailler, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed,... | |
 | Books - 1759 - 606 pages
...following pkiurefque lines : In the word inn's worft room, with mat half hung The floors of plaiilcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with draw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung, ** On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with flrawt " With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to " draw, " The George and Garter dangling from that 11 bed *' Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, *' Great Villers lies — Alas! how chang'd from... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...plaifter, and the walls of dung-, f ' On once a Hock-bed, but repaired with ftraw, *' With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to " draw, '« The George and Garter dangling from that C€ bed " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, " G reat Villers lies — Alas '. how chang'd... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300 On orce a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bedWhere tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from hirti,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...with mat half-huug, 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 M'here tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...Pope's beautiful lines : In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The 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... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 pages
...records the wretched end of its founder: In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The flooii of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair"J with straw. With tape-ty'd curtains never meant to draw. The George and Garter dangling from... | |
 | John Fletcher, David Garrick - 1808 - 410 pages
...following well-known description : — " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, " The floprs 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... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...alt ludes to his death : " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half 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 George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry... | |
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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 repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow... 
