 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 216 pàgines
...third line of the following triplet: 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.8" In An Essay on Criticism, published the next year, Pope derides it memorably in a couplet,... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pàgines
...described as "a harmony of garbage": 30 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. [61-63] The format of a list, its vertical or horizontal orientation, is simply another feature of... | |
 | Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 252 pàgines
...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."' To be sure, Swift's catalog of waste is primarily nonhuman. Swift's attitude toward the urban body,... | |
 | Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Cecilia Pietropoli - 2007 - 281 pàgines
...daily life in the streets of the city: 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.23 For Anna Seward this struggle is enacted partly through the evocation of an imaginary poet... | |
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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... 
