 | John Ashton - 1888 - 458 str.
...from the Conduit, prone to Holborn Bridge. Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood." We get a glimpse of prehistoric London, and the valley of the Fleet, in Cough's cc British Topography,"... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1892 - 484 str.
...Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn Bridge. Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...cats, and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood." ' London Smoke. — Summer and winter alike the capital was enveloped in a thick smoke, which was caused,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 str.
...occurs in, his City Shower, and runs thus : " Sweeping, from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood ; Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops came tumbling down like flood." Compare what Johnson says about both triplets and Alexandrines in his... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 str.
...Fall from the conduit prone to Holborn bridge. Sweeping from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. /. Swift 614 ., RESTORATION VERSE Hymn to Contentment T OVELY, lasting peace of mind, •*-* Sweet... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 str.
...Fall from the conduit prone to Holborn bridge.3 Sweeping from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...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 - 1913 - 504 str.
...of the " Description of a City Shower " : " Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...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 str.
...Fall from the conduit prone to Holborn bridge. Sweeping from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in...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, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 str.
...were laid. (Garth, The Dispensary, Canto n)" Sweepings from Butchers' Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in...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 - 1987 - 240 str.
...London's streets might flow copiously, in 1710, as Sweepings from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in...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 - 1987 - 240 str.
...London's streets might flow copiously, in 1710, as Sweepings from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in...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,... | |
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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. 
