 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...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 yellew strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him* That life of pleasure,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaiiM with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that...with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliefden's proud... | |
 | John Cole - Scarborough (England) - 1825 - 122 pages
...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 from that...with dirty red, Great Villiers lies,— alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay in Clifdeu*s proud... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the walls of dung, On onee a floek-hed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd eurtains, never meant nee Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission — alns! how ehang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...walls of dune, ^ . 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, Great Villien lies — alas I how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repaīr'd with straw. With tape-tied curtains, never meant om the lowest stone ; and bury all In one sad sepulchre, one common fall. He I how changed from him. That life of pltasuro, and that soul of whim I Onllaiit and (ray, in Cliveden's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305 That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...Epistle to Bathurst) that same Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, husband of the virgin of Applcton House: Great Villiers lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! . . . There, Victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame; this lord of useless thousands ends.... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...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 from that...yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies . . . The second is the comic parable of 'Citizen Balaam' that ends the Epistle, having been interposed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...walls of dung, 300 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 Villers lies—alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! Gallant 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... 
