The British Essayists;
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217576475
Paperback|9780217576475
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: description of a City-shower. I do not question but the reader remembers my cousin's description of the Morning as it breaks in town, which is printed in the ninth Tatler, and is another exquisite piece of this local poetry. Careful observers may foretel the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a Shower; While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then go not far to dine, You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming Shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage. Sauntering in coffee-house is Dulman seen; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, .rising with dabbled wings, A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill.d more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, Whilst the first drizzling Shower is borne aslope: Such is that sprinkling which some careless quean Flirts on you from her mop, but not so clean. You fly, invoke the gods; then, turning, stop To rail; she, singing, still whirls un her mop. Not yet the dust had shunn'd th unequal strife, But, aided by the wind, fought still for life; And, wafted with its toe by violent gust, T-was doubtful which was.rain, and which was dust. Ah where must needy Poet seek for aid, When dust and rain at once his coat invade ? His only coat, where dust, confus'd with rain, Roughen the nap, and leave a mingled stain ? 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..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217576475 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217576478 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 174 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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