 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 sidor
...fits ; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks...who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear.... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1862 - 272 sidor
...felicity in dealing with such subjects, has outdone all his brother poets in his " City Shower :"— " Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go ; Kith of all hues and odours seem to tell What street they sailed from by their sight and smell. They,... | |
 | 1863 - 326 sidor
...fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed Pregnant with Greeks...who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with a spear, And each imprisoned champion quaked with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 350 sidor
...fits: And ever and anon, with frightful din, The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks,...Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear." The description concludes with a triumphant account of a gutter,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 340 sidor
...: And ever and anon, with frightful din, The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks,...Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear." The description concludes with a triumphant account of a gutter,... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 sidor
...century were hardly commenced in Churchill's time. Swift's description is happily obsolete : — " Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go ; Filth of all hues and odour seem to tell What street they sailed from by their sight and smell. Sweeping... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - 344 sidor
...past century were hardly commenced in Churchill's time. Swift's description is happily obsolete:— "Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go; Filth of all hues and odour seem to tell What street they sailed from by their sight and smell. Sweeping... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 sidor
...fits ; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks...who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 sidor
...silver flood."— The Duxciad, book 11. Swift thus revels in its delida, in his '".-/// Shower .— — "Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow. And bear their trophies with them as they go; Filth of all hues and odours seem to tell What street they soil'd from by their sight and smell. They,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 sidor
...silver flood."— The Dunciad, book 11. Swift thus revels in its delicice, in his City Shower : — "Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they goj Filth of all hues and odours Beem to tell What street they sail'd from by their sicrht and smell.... | |
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While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as... 
