 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...  The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 268by John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 658 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 pages
...THE DEATH OF THE SAME (Epistle to Lord Bathurst.) 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 repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - 1902 - 470 pages
...circumstances described, on April 17, 1688. *********** * In the worst inn's room, with mat halfhung, 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... | |
 | Baroness Winifred Anne Henrietta Christine Herbert Gardner Burghclere - 1903 - 466 pages
...of Buckingham would be complete without them. " 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 pages
...famous lines on the same nobleman's character. ' 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... | |
 | John M. Dillon - 1908 - 456 pages
...the vivid picture which Pope drew came to my mind: 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1908 - 288 pages
...famous lines on the same nobleman's character. ' 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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...the doubtful comforts that it affords our end : 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...state. 4319 Pope : Prol. to Addison's Cato. Line 21 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... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...about Buckingham in the third Moral Essay : — 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... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1925 - 42 pages
...sordid interior as well as any French novelist — 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-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter... | |
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