 | 1852 - 874 pągines
...conduit prono to Holborn bridge. Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppres, *x& * `& * HORACE, ROOK III. ODE II. TO THE EARL OF OXFORD, LATE LORD TREASURER. Sent to him when in the Tower,... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 720 pągines
...the conduit prone to Holborne 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. THE PROGRESS OF CURIOSITY; OB A ROYAL VISIT TO WHITBREAD'S BREWERY. PETER PINDAR. Sie transit gloria... | |
 | 1857 - 692 pągines
..."trophies," for the sake of your readers, we may as well omit. Let the last two lines suffice : " Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead...cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood." Viewing the " drown'd puppies " and " dead cats " as they tumble on in the torrent caused by the shower,... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 pągines
...sailed from by their sight and smell. 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." A Description of a City Shower. To bow as humbly as the Dean : The Mansion House, for ever placed A... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 pągines
...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." Fleet Ditch is engraved us the frontispiece to Warburton's Pope, vol. v. (Th» Dunciad.) The ditch... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pągines
...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. ON THE LITTLE HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD OF CASTLENOCK. 1710. WHOEVER pleases to inquire Why yonder steeple... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 pągines
...the conduit prone to Holborne 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. THE PROGRESS OF CURIOSITY; OB A BOTAL VISIT TO WHTTBREAD's BRBWEBT. PETER PINHA8. 8tc transit gloria... | |
 | John Ashton - 1888 - 458 pągines
...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." We get a glimpse of prehistoric London, and the valley of the Fleet, in Cough's cc British Topography,"... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1892 - 484 pągines
...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." ' London Smoke. — Summer and winter alike the capital was enveloped in a thick smoke, which was caused,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pągines
...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. /. Swift 614 ., RESTORATION VERSE Hymn to Contentment T OVELY, lasting peace of mind, •*-* Sweet... | |
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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... 
