| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...halfhung, The 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...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
...of plafter, and die 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,... | |
| 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
...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 George and 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... | |
| 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
...half hung, The 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...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,... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...of plafrer, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with ftraw. With tipe-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 life of pleafure, and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...floors of planer, and the 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 reel, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd frrm him That life of pleafure, and... | |
| 1800 - 274 pages
...half-hung, The floors of plafter, 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...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies. Alas! how chang'd from h!m> That life of pleafure, arid... | |
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