| Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle lakes in Parian is tone. Behold what blowings 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 Ou once a flock-bed, but repair'd with... | |
| George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...of the death of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham : " 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 repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...of the death of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: " 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 repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...his hands ; That livelong wig, which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. Y%Z% plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains,... | |
| Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...of the death of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham : " In the worstinn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaister, 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... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1853 - 770 pages
...to read without honourable tears : — In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floor of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, "With tape-tyed curtains, never meant to draw, The 'George and Garter,' dangling from that bed, Where tawdry... | |
| Bernard Burke - Nobility - 1853 - 334 pages
...describes his death, which he affirms to have taken place at a remote inn somewhere in Yorkshire : — " Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And see what comfort it affords our end. Jn the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung ; On... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...hands ; That live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own, 295 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, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains... | |
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