 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 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 ; Or just as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 páginas
...and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers liest — alas! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Gliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury! and love ; .Or just... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 páginas
...Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies : alas 1 how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim! Gallant and gay, in Clavcrdon's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love; Or, just as... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 386 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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 ; Or just as... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 332 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 332 páginas
...meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bod 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 hower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; There, victor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 546 páginas
...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 soul of whim! There victor of his health, of fortune, friende And fame, the lord of useless thousands enda," * Rochester... | |
 | 1865 - 940 páginas
...voice had lost its roundness and force, his form its buoyancy, his intellect its strength, — " Alas t how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! " Yet his wit was ready still; he continued to sparkle humor even when exhausted nature failed ;... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 páginas
...dangled from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strives with dirty red j Great Villiers lies— alas! bow changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim. * * * * Or just as gay at Council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King. No wit to flatter,... | |
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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... 
