 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 páginas
...meant to draw, The George 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 and that soul of whim ; Gallant and gay in Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 páginas
...meant to draw, The George 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 and that soul of whim ; Gallant and gay in Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies j — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's k proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury i and love ; Or just... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 páginas
...meant to draw, The George 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, and that sonl of whim !" If any should object that this is all very finished and elaborate, but it is very minute... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1851 - 788 páginas
...meant to draw, The George 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, and that soul of whim, Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; There, victor... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 páginas
...In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, With floor of plaster, and with walls of dung — Great Villiers lies. Alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim I— No wit to flatter left of all his store 1 No fool to laugh at, which he valued more ! There, victor... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 360 páginas
...himself lost and buried amidst the rubbish of one of our larger, or 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1851 - 54 páginas
...Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies—alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim !" If any should object that this is all very finished and elaborate, but it is very minute—only... | |
 | 1851 - 604 páginas
...dangling from that bedr Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red : Great Villiere 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... | |
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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... 
