 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...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 dangling from that " bed " Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, " Great Villers lies — Alas ! how chang'd from " him, *' That life of pleafure,... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1770 - 310 pages
...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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies— Alas ! how changM from him, That life of pleafure, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtain's, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure, and... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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, That life of pleasure, and that sou! of whim ! 306 Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, butvepair'd with ilraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow flrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies * — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305, That life of pleafure,... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red. Great Great Villers lies alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...and the walls of d On once ayfovf-bed, but repair'd withdraw, With topt-tj'4 curtains, never meant to draw, The. George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow flrove with dirty rtdt Great Villers lies %. THE ufe, the force, and the excellence • " He muft have... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...'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
...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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Fillers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of Pleafure, and... | |
 | Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...walls of dung, " On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw, " With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, " 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,... | |
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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... 
