 | 1841 - 500 ページ
...floors of plaster and the walls of dung, 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 Villiers lies; alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 ページ
...plaster, and the walla of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'rt cnrtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed ЛУЬеге tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great ViUim lies — alas I how ehang'd from him,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1842 - 834 ページ
...floor of plaster, and the walls of dung, 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 Villiers lies — Alas ! — how changed from him, The life of pleasure,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 ページ
...floora of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied ixt the winds and tides, Forc'd back, and forwards, in strove with dirty red. Great Villiers lies — alas, how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and... | |
 | 1846 - 602 ページ
...walls of pla,ter, and the floor of dung, On once a flock bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-lied curtains never meant to draw ; The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies." The farm-houses of that period, though possibly rude and... | |
 | 240 ページ
...floors of plaister and the walla of dung, 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 Villiers lies ; alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1925 - 42 ページ
...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 strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies But these are only the outworks of the citadel. The heart... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 ページ
...floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flockbed, 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 ページ
...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that hod Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 ページ
...of plaister, 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 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,... | |
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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... 
