 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1871 - 386 páginas
...In the worst inn's worst room, with mats half hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung .... Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! ' Almost at the very moment when he left the Tower in his fourth imprisonment, on the pout and prayer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 páginas
...touches are to be found in Pope's equally famous character of Buckingham, in describing his death : "Alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure and that soul of whim'. Gallant and gay in Clevcden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1871 - 532 páginas
...HOOK. his voice had lost its roundness and force, his form its buoyancy, his intellect its strength. "Alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! " Yet his wit was ready still ; he continued to sparkle humour even when exhausted nature failed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers2 lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud aleove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury,3 and love ; Or just... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 540 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, friend? And fame, the lord of useless thousands enda," * Rochester... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 páginas
...Garter 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 páginas
...George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Yilliers 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 - 1876 - 668 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 aleove. The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love; There, victor... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 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 gay... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 páginas
...George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Yilliers 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 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... 
