 ... 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red. Great Villiers lies — alas, how chang'd real hunger, and concoctive heat To transubstantiate : what redounds, transpires Through aleove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and Love 878 EPlST. HL MORAL ESSAYS. Or just as gay, at council,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...wantoned with his abandoned mistress, the Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband he had killed in a duel. Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love. Cliveden was afterwards the residence of Lady Orkney, the mistress of William the Third, and subsequently... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...says— "Why rail they then if but one wreath of mine, Oh all-accomplished St. John, deck thy shrine 1" Again, he has bequeathed this praise to Lord Cornbury—...led. Thus he says to Arbuthnot: " Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own 1 At yet a child, nor yet a fool to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...thoughts, low gains : Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains; Be virtuous and be happy for your pains." 3ne would think (though there is no knowing) that a descendant...led. Thus he says to Arbuthnot : " Why did I write 1 What sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents' or my own 7 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 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,... | |
 | Romani - 1845 - 796 pages
...and Garter dangling from that hed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas, 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, in a... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1845 - 104 pages
...thought suppress'd. * " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, ***** Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! " POPE, Epistle to Lord Bathurst. " How many sold?" rejoins the bibliopole, " I wish there had been... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 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 mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 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 mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to natter,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 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 mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter,... | |
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