 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
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...struggling with an attack of illness. Pope's lines on him are probably familiar to all our readers : — " 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,... | |
 | Romani - 1845 - 796 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-hed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...comfort it affords our end. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,i4 The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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 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... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...his last in sordid and miserable surroundings In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, 299 The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On...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... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...last transformation in crazily metamorphosed surroundings, no longer "in Cliveden's proud alcove," but "In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, / The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung" (lines 299-3oo). It is as if both body and spirit of the dying man had turned inside out, spreading... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...Buckingham's fate in the Epistle to Bathurst has as much density of detail as anything in Wordsworth: On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw . . . Pope's note to Bk VI, line 595 of his translation of the Iliad, in which the infant Astyanax... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains,... | |
 | Steven Earnshaw - History - 2000 - 308 pages
...of the inn where Buckingham died in 1687 is a notable exception to the hierarchy of drinking places: '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 repaired with straw, / With tape-tied curtains,... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Literary form - 2003 - 219 pages
..."Epistle to Bathurst." To set Pope's alongside Morgan's is to appreciate the latter's deadpan method: In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung,...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,... | |
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