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
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - Počet stránok 474
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repairM with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villars lies. Alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! Gallant and... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - Počet stránok 512
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw. With upe-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villars lies. Alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure,.#nd that soul of whim ! Gallant and... | |
| Samuel Ireland - 1801 - Počet stránok 294
...fcene exhibited on this fpot, juftly claim recital. " On once a flock bed, but repair'd with Araw, " With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw ; " The...Garter dangling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow drove with dirty red, " Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, " That life of pleafure,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - Počet stránok 232
...of plaster, and the 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...with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! 306 Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - Počet stránok 440
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a^/Zocfc-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.f The use, the force, and the excellence of language, certainly consists in raising clear, complete,... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - Počet stránok 440
...plaister, and the walls of dung, On once ajlock-bed, but repair5 d with straw, With tape-ty'd rurtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling...tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.-}use, the force, and the excellence of language, certainly consists in raising dear, complete,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - Počet stránok 466
...of plaifter, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with flraw, 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 ch'ang'd from him, That life of pleafure,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - Počet stránok 474
...plaifter, and the walls of dung, 300 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 flrove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleafure, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - Počet stránok 474
...half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with strmw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The...with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud... | |
| John Bew - 1807 - Počet stránok 408
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ly'd curtains never meant to draw. The George and Garter...strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies. Alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gaj, in Clifden's proud... | |
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