 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 sidor
...cloudy stain ! Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, . While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.... | |
 | Sir Edmund Gosse - 1916 - 438 sidor
...flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females By, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. The Templar...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 sidor
...Shower : ' ' Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | A. B. England - 1980 - 252 sidor
...the dagged Females fly, Pretend to cheapen Goods, but nothing buy, The Templer spruce, while ev'ry Spout's a-broach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a Coach. The tuck'd-up Sempstress walks with hasty Strides, While Streams run down her oil'd Umbrella's Sides. Here... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 sidor
...Flood comes down, Threat'ning with Deluge this Devoted Town. The Ternpler spruce, while ev'ry Sprout's a-broach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a Coach. The tuck'd-up Sempstress walks with hasty Strides, While Streams run down her oil'd Umbrella's Sides. (Swift,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sidor
...QUOTATIONS 450 7 Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threat'ning with deluge this devoted town. . (1. 31—34) 8 Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their... | |
 | Austin Clarke - 1995 - 422 sidor
...antithesis: Now in contiguous Drops the Rood comes down, Threat'ning with Deluge this devoted Town. To Shops in Crowds the daggled Females fly, Pretend to cheapen Goods, but nothing buy. The Templer spruce, while ev'ry Spout's a-broach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a Coach. The... | |
 | Rick Allen - 1998 - 268 sidor
...stain. 30 Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threat'ning with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...goods, but nothing buy. The Templar spruce, while ev'ry spout's a-broach, ' Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tucked-up sempstress... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 sidor
...comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly. 104 Pretend to cheapen goods but nothing buy. The Templar...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides While streams run down her oiled umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding - 2004 - 340 sidor
...trying to lower the price or haggle with the tradesman. Swift uses the term in "City Shower" (1727): "To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, / Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy" (lines 33-34). 3 Auctions were an important site of social interaction drawing men and women from a... | |
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Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. 
