 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...the conduit prone to Holborn bridge.3 Sweeping 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. 1 Alluding to the change of ministry at that time. '• « 2 Virg., "Aeneid," lib. ii.— WEB 3 Fleet... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1913 - 504 pages
..." Description of a City Shower " : " 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." A note is appended in Faulkner's edition of Swift's "Works" (ii, 31) which, read in conjunction with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...the conduit prone to Holborn bridge. Sweeping 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. DR. SWIFT TO MR. POPE <-- WHILE HE WAS WRITING THE "DUNCIAD" 1727 POPE has the talent well to speak,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 308 pages
...laid. (Garth, The Dispensary, Canto n)" 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. (Swift, "A Description of a City Shower," 1710) And Polyanthus of unnumber'd Dyes; The yellow Wall-Flower,... | |
 | Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 240 pages
...streets might flow copiously, in 1710, as 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, (“A Description of a City Shower”, Poems, I, 139) 18. Homage to Catalonia, Penguin edition, 1962,... | |
 | Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 240 pages
...streets might flow copiously, in 1710, as 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 ("A Description of a City Shower", Poems, I, 139) j 18. Homage to Catalonia, Penguin edition, 1962,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...join to save their wigs. (1. 41-42) 9 Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd umbia University Press (1. 61-63) HelP; MAT; NAEL-1; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; PoE; PPP; SeCePo; TEP; UnPo If o'er against... | |
 | Austin Clarke - Literary Collections - 1995 - 422 pages
...the Conduit prone to Holborn Bridge. Sweepings 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. Is it too much to fancy that Pope paid tribute to that passage in the Second Book of The Dunciad? To... | |
 | Laura Brown - History - 2001 - 292 pages
...the Conduit prone to Holbarn-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. (11-55-63) The "Flood" in both of these poems names the irresistible energy at the core of contemporary... | |
 | Colin Wells - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 276 pages
...all parts the swelling kennels flow, / And bear their trophies with them as they go: / . . . Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, / Dead...cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood" (11. 53-63). It is also an allusion to The Dunciad, as the same image had been used by Pope to describe... | |
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... sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn-Bridge. Sweepings from... 
