 tis positive Negation! COLOGNE. IN Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign...  the calcutta review - Page 68by the calcutta review - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Burges Johnson - 1910 - 180 pages
...monks and bones, And pavements fanged with murderous stones, And rags and hags and hideous wenches, — I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1912 - 1112 pages
...monks and bones", And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! / 5 Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks. The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1915 - 150 pages
...monks and bones, And pavements fanged with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...monks and bones, And pavements fangcd with murderous stones, And nigs, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! '/ Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city... | |
 | 1902 - 600 pages
...have secured, on the one hand, reputation for rags and hags and hideous wenches, where the poet says: "I counted two and seventy stenches, all well defined, and several stinks," while at the same time its one perfume should have become a household word in every civilized country... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1983 - 232 pages
...to buy a bottle of eau de Cologne to sweeten the foul air of death. Coleridge wrote about the smells of Cologne: I counted two and seventy stenches All well defined, and several stinks! What fussy travelers the English were, forever objecting to reeks and stinks as if they had none at... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author Smells I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet ofCohgnc The rankest compound of villainous smell... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city... | |
 | Marthinus Versfeld - 2004 - 176 pages
...English word, "it stinks good, yes?"' (John Morris, A Winter in Nepal.) It reminds one of Coleridge in Cologne: 'I counted two and seventy stenches, all well .defined, and several stinks.' Curry, cuisine and culture "^ ONE CANNOT SEPARATE the way people eat from the way they work and pray.... | |
 | 1881 - 494 pages
...the heart of the native town, already too fully described, and where I may without exaggeration say " I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! " To the right we leave the only conspicuous structure which the Heavenly Ferry possesses, the glutted... | |
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