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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... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 309
1927
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London, by David Hughson, Volume 5

Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 pages
...with mat half-hung, The flooii of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair"J 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. Alas? how chang'd from him....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...comfort it affords our end. In the worst iun's worst room, with mat half-huug, 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 M'here tawdry...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...has been immortalized by Pope's beautiful lines : In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaister, 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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...has been immortalized by Pope's beautiful lines : In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaister, 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...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 5

David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 566 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 witli straw, With tape-ty'd curtains...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 5

David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 576 pages
...commemorated this place, in the celebrated lines, in whichlie 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-ty'd curtains...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Parian stone. Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And see what 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 straw, With tape-tied curtains,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...' And see what comfort it affords our end. I n the worstinn's worst room, with mat half hung, Tjic e the massy bar. This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of exi stravr, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, ''he George and Garter dangling from that bed...
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Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1809 - 344 pages
...bleman's life in these lines : ' 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 tapc-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw; The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...MILTON'S Paradise. Lost. Buckingham. Buckingham. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On...tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Ga:ter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies! — alas!...
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