Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. Once Upon a Time - Página 14por Charles Knight - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Book - 1868 - 168 páginas
...EXTRACTS. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run...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... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1872 - 510 páginas
...borrow a classical allusion. The following is from S wilt's Description of a City Shower : — " Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run...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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 522 páginas
...without their disadvantages. Swift describes the position of a London dandy in a shower — " Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run...leather sounds ; — he trembles from within." The discomforts of the streets, however, then made all means of locomotion unpleasant : thus Gay says—... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 páginas
...position of a London dandy in a shower — " Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts ran clattering o'er the roof by fits ; . And ever and...leather sounds ; — he trembles from within." The discomforts of the streets, however, then made all means of locomotion unpleasant : thus Gay says —... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 páginas
...without their disadvantages. Swift describes the position of a London dandy in a shower — " Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, 'While spouts...run clattering o'er the roof by fits ; And ever and annn with frightful din The leather sounds ; — he trembles from within." The discomforts of the streets,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...Tories and desponding Whigs, £ orget their fends, and join to save their wigs Boxed ma chair the bean impatient sits, " While spouts run clattering o'er...roof by fits ; And ever and anon with frightful din Ihe leather sounds ; he trembles from within So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant... | |
| Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - 1880 - 1048 páginas
...of the progress of a fop in rainy weather : Boxed in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouta run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and...din The leather sounds — he trembles from within ! Another public servant has vanished with the old and dilapidated pavements — the shoeblack.* This... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 746 páginas
...shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs, Forget their fends, and join to save their wigs. Boxed hi a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run...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... | |
| John Ashton - 1882 - 326 páginas
...shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a Chair the Beau impatient sits, While spouts run...din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. Those gutter spouts, sending their streams not quite clear of the pavement, must have been a terrible... | |
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