| Several Hands - 1759 - 602 pages
...following piclurefqut lines : In the word inn's worfl room, with mat half hung The floors of plailler, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with ftraw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed,... | |
| Books - 1759 - 606 pages
...following pkiurefque lines : In the word inn's worft room, with mat half hung The floors of plaiilcr, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with draw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. 296 Behold what blessings wealfh to life can lend! And, see what comfort it affords...half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, 300 On orce a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...hands ; That live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. 296 Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And...inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains,... | |
| 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... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...hands ; That live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own, 29o Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And,...In the worst inn's worst room, with mat halfhung, Great Villiers lies — alas I how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim !... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend I .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 strmw, 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...wig, which Gorgon's self might own. Eternal buckle takes in Parian 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...his hands; That live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And...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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