 | Alexander Pope - 1865 - 506 pagina’s
...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,...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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 pagina’s
...Miser's House, the Man of Ross's charities, and of the death of Villicrs, Duke of Buckingham :— " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and tie walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 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... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 356 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1867 - 644 pagina’s
...Pope's well-known lines, inconsistent as they are with fact, should be read at Kirkby Moorside :— " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! (¡allant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pagina’s
...end. B. And what Ì no monument, inscription, stone ? His race, his form, his name almost unknown 1 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... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 pagina’s
...of riot and mad extravagance, he lay at the hour of death in the condition described by Pope :— " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...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... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pagina’s
...of riot and mad extravagance, he lay at the hour of death in the condition described by Pope :— " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pagina’s
...Parian stone. Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And see, what comfort it affords our end. 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... | |
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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... 
