 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 various kinds by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding...  The British Essayists - Page 106edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Andrews - England - 1897 - 312 pages
...means uncommon ; care had to be exercised that wigs were not lost. Says Swift : — • " Triumphing Tories and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs." Although precautions were taken to prevent wigs being stolen, we are told that robberies were frequently... | |
 | William Andrews - Barbers - 1904 - 148 pages
...no means uncommon ; care had to be exercised that wigs were not lost. Swift says : — " Triumphing Tories and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs." Although precautions were taken to prevent wigs being stolen, we are told that robberies Stealing a... | |
 | English poetry - 188? - 986 pages
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 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, . While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes...underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,1 Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits,... | |
 | Sir Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1916 - 438 pages
...to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes...Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Hox'd in a chair the Beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes...underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, 3 Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair the beau impatient sits, While... | |
 | English poetry - 1932 - 1210 pages
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