| Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 412 pages
...Holhourn-lridge. * Sweepings from butcher's ftails, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, ftinking fprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood. * Thefe three lad lines were intended againft that ficentious manner of modern Poets, in making three... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 336 pages
...Holborn-bridge. * Sweepings from 'butchers flails, dungn guts, and blood, Drown'd puppks, ftinking fprats, all! drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the .flood. A DESCRIPTION OF TH E MORNING. NOW hardly here and there an hackney coach Appearing fhew'dtheruddy... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 338 pages
...Holborn-bridgei * Sweepings from butchers ftails, dung,^ guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, (linking fprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. « A DESCRIPTION OFTHE MORNING, NO W hardly here and there an hackney coach Appearing fhew'd the ruddy... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 422 pages
...bridge. 66* Sweepings from butchers ftails, dung, guts, " and blood, Drown'd puppies, flinking fprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. * Thefe three laft lines were intended to ridicule the practice of modern poets, who make three lines... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 466 pages
...bridge. Sweepings from butchers' ftalls, dung, guts, and' blood, Drown'd puppies, ftinking fprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood. ON THE LITTLE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD OF CASTLENOCK. 1710. "117" HOEVER pleafes to enquire Why yonder... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...bridge. Sweepings from butchers' flails, dung>, guts, and' blood, Drown'd puppies, {linking fprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. ON THE LITTLE House BY TIIE CHURCB-TARU o» CASTLENOCK. 1710. WHOEVER pleafeth* to inquire Why yonder... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pages
...where dust, confus'd with rain, • Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts,. and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead...cats, and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood. ON THE LITTLE HOUSE BY THS CHURCHYARD OF CASTLENOCK. VV HOEVER pleases to inquire Why yonder steeple... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...alldrencb'd in mud, Deid c;its, and turu:u-toj*, come tumbling duvm the flood. How diflerentis a shower "m the country ! How pleasant is it, then, to sit at the window of my conntry house, and listen to the gentle kisses of rain-drops and leaves ; to hear the drooping bird... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...Conduit prone to Holborn-bridge. S weepings from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, 'and blood. • Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead...cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. A Love Song. A pud in is almi des he, Mimis tres I ne ver re qui re ; Alo veri findit a gestis, His... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...the conduit, prone to Holborn-bridge. Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood • I ood. J N°230. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1710. — — Mecum ccrtassc ftretur t OVID. Met. xiii.... | |
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