 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 ページ
...floors of plaister, and 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 bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies . . . The second is the comic parable of 'Citizen Balaam'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...of plaster, and the 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... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 ページ
...floors of plaister, and 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 bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | Joseph Roach - 2007 - 284 ページ
...floors of plaister, and 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 bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies—alas! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, 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... 
