 ... 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...  Lectures on the English Poets - Page 153by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villicrs lies — alas! how chang'd from him, That life of Pleasure, and that soul of whim' Gallant and gay, iu Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in... | |
 | 1915 - 558 pages
...England Î Stanzas i. and ii. appeared in The Times of 30 Nov., 1914. CW SPALL. CLIVEDEN HOUSE. — Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love, in the third of Pope's • Moral Essays,' refers to George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham. In... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1851 - 788 pages
...and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies ! Alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure,...proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, the lord of useless thousands ends. Without... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red: Great Villiers»lies:—but ah, how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim. Gallant and gay in Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love! Or just as gay at council 'mid the... | |
 | 1851 - 604 pages
...dangling from that bedr Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red : Great Villiere lies : — but, ah, x Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ! Or just as gay at council 'mid the... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1903 - 354 pages
...from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies : — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of...proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit, to flatter,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 582 pages
...himself lost and buried amidst the rubbish of one of our larger, or else of one of our Minor Theatres ? 'Alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! ' But as this was no doubt the height of his ambition, why should we wish to debar him of it ? This... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1904 - 744 pages
...Garter dangling from that bed "Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies— alas I how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that...proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter lelt... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 304 pages
...burst its cearments. — Hamlet, I. iv. 48. 210. alas! how charged, etc. — Adapted from Pope — " Alas ! how changed from him That life of Pleasure,...whim ! Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove." Moral Essays, III. 305-7. 212. Lord Foppington. — In Congreve's comedy, The Relapse, Lord Foppington... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 pages
...Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies l — alas ! how chang'd from him, 305 That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's* proud alcove, The bow'r of wanton Shrewsbury 3 and love ; Or just as gay, at Council, in a ring Of mimic'd Statesmen,... | |
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