 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 512 pagina’s
...to the dissipated scenes transacted on this spot, they seem justly to claim recital. f .^^ holm- o In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once » flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 496 pagina’s
...jusMy to claim recital. In the wont inn's worst room, with mat half hong, The floors of plaster and ihe walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repaired with straw, \Vuli tape ty'd curtains never meant to draw. The George and Garter dangling from that bed "Where tawdry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 pagina’s
...can lend! And see what comfort it affords our end. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat halfhung, 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... | |
 | William Beloe - 1807 - 884 pagina’s
...Shrewsbury that Pope alludes in his animated description of her Paramour Villers, Duke of Buckingham. " In the worst inn's, worst room, with mat half hung, " The floors of plaistcr, and the walls of dung, " On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, " With tape-ty'd curtains,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 410 pagina’s
...this great nobleman, and celebrated genius, Pope has given the following well-known description :— " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, " On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, " With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, *' The George and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pagina’s
...disregard. His dying scene, in a paltry inn in Yorkshire, 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,... | |
 | David Hughson - 1808 - 576 pagina’s
...lie records the wretched end of its founder : 1 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 never meant to draw. The George and Garter... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 pagina’s
...was left.' Absalom and Achitophel. Pope describes the last scene of this no-* bleman's life in these lines: ' In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half...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... | |
 | 1809 - 316 pagina’s
...Expressive of a folly so refin'd. Rev. Dr. Jos. Stennelt, Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...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... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 514 pagina’s
...and they had his estate." Pope, in " The Epistle to Lord Bathurst," thus alt ludes to his death : " 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-ty'd curtains,... | |
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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 repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw; The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow... 
