 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3091927Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...385. I While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar, whom he longs to eat.* la the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The...floors of 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...worst room, with mat Aa(/"-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once ajlock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains,...meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.f^— — • The use, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...halfhung, The floors 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...halfhung, The floors of 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...comfort it affords our end. 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 strmw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...stone. 296 Bebold what hlessings wealth to life can lend ! And see what comfort it affords our eod ! In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-hed, hut repaiv'd with straw. With tape-tied curtains,... | |
 | John Bew - 1807 - 408 pages
...commemorated this place, in the celebrated lines, in which he records the wretched end of its founder: 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-ly'd curtains... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 410 pages
...\vell-knpwn description : — " 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...meant to draw, " The George and Garter dangling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, " Great Villiers lies — Alas ! how chang'd... | |
 | John Fletcher, David Garrick - 1808 - 410 pages
...well-known description : — " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, " The floprs of plaster, and the walls of dung, " On once a flock-bed, but...meant to draw, " The George and Garter dangling from that bed, " " Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, " Great Villiers lies — Alas! how chang'd... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...\vellrkno\vn description : — " 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...curtains, never meant to draw, *' The George and Garter dandling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, * Great Villiers lies — Alas... | |
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