 | Edward King - 1900 - 384 sidor
...Swift, exactly describe what must have been seen at the bottom of the town after every heavy shower : " Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go. Sweepings from butchers' stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats all drenched... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 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 hero quaked with fear.... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 sidor
...45 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...freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, 50 Instead of paying chairman, ran them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sidor
...fits, 45 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...freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, 50 Instead of paying chairman, ran them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sidor
...impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, 50 Instead of paying chairman, ran them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear. ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1908 - 552 sidor
..."certis signis", Geor. i. 351. And, at the close, it has its own picture of the effect of the storm, " Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them ", etc., to match Virgil's picture, Geor. i. 325, " et pluvia ingenti sata laeta boumque labores diluit... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 sidor
...And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when the Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks...Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear. Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 sidor
...to rain pitchforks. This slang phrase first occurs in Dean Swift's "Polite Conversation" (1738) : "I Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow. And bear their trophies with them as they go ; Drowned puppies, stinking sprats all drenched in mud. Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 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...Instead of paying chairmen, ran them through,) Laocoon 2 struck the outside with his spear, And each imprison'd hero quaked for fear. Now from all parts the... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 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...spear, And each imprison'd hero quaked for fear." 154 SWIFT AND THE DEISTS CHAP. With the publication of the Miscellanies in 1711, the first period of... | |
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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... 
