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
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 394 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... | |
| 1857 - 516 pages
...which arises the foulest smell. Porters, carrying buckets of offal, brush past us ; public cloacce stand open at the corners, and the clothes and persons...stenches, All well defined — and several stinks j" but Shanghai, in its horrid foulness, would be flattered by such a description. I never go within... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 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... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 472 pages
...us that made us stagger as though we had been hit by grape-shot.* We groped our way through void * " I counted two and seventy stenches — All well defined and several stinks." Coleridge on Cologne. But the foulest part of Cologne is clean, pure, and sweet, spaces left by some... | |
| Edmund George Harvey - 1854 - 200 pages
...the full number (though we counted a good many) of the abominations of the city. Coleridge says — I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks. But in his time most likely they had not the fountains or streams of Eau de Cologne running in the streets.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - 1854 - 396 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 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 Hhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 426 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... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1859 - 322 pages
...us ; public cloacee s'and open at the corners, and the clothes and persons of the unwashed labourers and beggars distil a reeking compound of still more...would be flattered by such a description. I never went within its walls but with a shudder, and the taint of its contaminating atmosphere seemed to hang... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 588 pages
...earrying buckets of offal, brush past us; public cloacae stand open at the corners, and the elothes and persons of the unwashed laborers and beggars distil...Cologne : "I counted two and seventy stenches. All well defined—and several stinks; " but Shanghai, in its horrid fouluess, would be flattered by such a... | |
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