 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
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 страници
...the streets in a chair was not unalloyed :— 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. Largely as sedan chairs were utilised by the nobility and gentry,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 страници
...Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Boxed in a chair, the beau important 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... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 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 the Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 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... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 страници
...from 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 ; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed Pregnant with Greeks... | |
 | Rick Allen - 1998 - 268 страници
...and join to save their wigs. Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts ran clatt'ring o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds, he trembles from within. So when Troy chair-men bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks... | |
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