 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 412 strani
...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 strani
...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 morn's approach.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 354 strani
...Sweepings from butchers ftalls, dungn guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, ftinking fprats, all drerich'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. A ' DESCRIPTION OFTHE MORNING. NOW hardly here and there an hackney coach Appearing fhew'd the ruddy morn's approach.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 338 strani
...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 morn's approach*... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 466 strani
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 422 strani
...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... | |
 | 1787 - 446 strani
...huge confluence join'd at Snowhill ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn bridge. 60 Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and" blood, Drown'd...sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, conic tumbling down the flood. HORACE, BOOK I. EPIST. VII. IMITATED, AND ADDRESSED TO THE EARL OF OXFORD.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 strani
...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 strani
...Holbourn bridge. * Originally thus : " His only coat, where dust, confus'd with rain, • Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts,. and blood, Drown'd...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 strani
...join'd at Snowhill ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn-bridge. S weepings from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, 'and blood. • Drown'd puppies,...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 mi... | |
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... of all Hues and Odours seem to tell What Street they 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... 
