 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 clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles...  The Works of the English Poets: Swift - Страница 61по Samuel Johnson - 1779Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1855 - 434 страници
...and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the bean impatient sits, While spouts run cluttering 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 страници
...Swift's Description of a City Shower : — " Boxed 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 ; ho trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 720 страници
...Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. 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. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 страници
...of the progress of a fop in rainy weather : Boxed 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 ! G2 Another public servant has vanished with the old and dilapidated... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 страници
...the tale of Troy divine : Boxed 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. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 страници
...Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Boxed 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. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 страници
...join to save their wigs. Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts ran clattering over 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... | |
 | 1863 - 326 страници
...gasp on gasp. DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER. BOXED 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. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 страници
...Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. 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. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 страници
...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 anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; — he trembles from within." The discomforts of the streets, however, then made all means... | |
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