 | John Chalker - 1969 - 244 Seiten
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 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...the London streets: For ease and for'dispatch, the morning's best; No tides of passengers the streets molest. You'll see a draggled damsel here and there, From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear; . . . "Fishy traffic" for "fish" represents an Augustan device to give elevation to a... | |
 | David Nokes - 1995 - 600 Seiten
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 | Miles Ogborn - 1998 - 356 Seiten
...space both from and to the perspective of a solitary walker, is also concerned with the city's dangers: Now venture, Muse, from home to range the town, And for the publick safety risque thy own.145 However, by representing the everyday perils of the modern metropolis... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 Seiten
...though, are these lines from John Gay's 'Trivia; Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London' (1716): For Ease and for Dispatch, the Morning's best: No...Damsel, here and there, From Billingsgate her fishy Traffic bear; On doors the sallow Milk-maid chalks her Gains; Ah! how unlike the Milk-maid of the Plains!... | |
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The proper implements for wintery ways ; Has taught the walker, with judicious eyes, To read the various warnings of the skies : Now venture, Muse, from home to range the town, And for the public safety risk thy own. 
