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... Speculations literary and philosophic - Strana 42podľa Thomas De Quincey - 1862Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Počet stránok 592
...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... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Počet stránok 600
...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... | |
| George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1770 - Počet stránok 310
...floors of plaifter, 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 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 - Počet stránok 262
...plaifter, and the 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 - 1796 - Počet stránok 524
...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 - 1778 - Počet stránok 410
...of plaifter, and the 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,... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - Počet stránok 514
...The floors of plainer, 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... | |
| 1782 - Počet stránok 518
...floors of plaifter, 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 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,... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - Počet stránok 586
...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 - 1783 - Počet stránok 322
...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 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... | |
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