 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...fiozzi. Line 30 \ ONDON. Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. 2768 Dr. Johnson : London. Line IS London ! the needy villain's general home, The common-sewer of Paris... | |
 | William Black - 1888 - 300 pages
...spares, with age decay : Here malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead." THIS day began with glooms and disappointments ; then blossomed forth into a summerlike luxuriance... | |
 | 1894 - 484 pages
...it about this time. " Here malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a nibble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead." Thus musing I found myself before the door of Keen, Robinson & Co.'s counting house. " Here," said... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...(Jolinsoniana), 3ft LONDON. Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. Dr. Johnson, Land. London ! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Autographs - 1896 - 270 pages
...occasional fall of rubbish in a house hard by which was coming down, whispered to his neighbor : — " Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead." She had lately published those Letters to Mr. Atkinson which provoked some wit to say, " Miss Martineau's... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...charge is prepared, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged ; a terrible show ! GAY: Beggar's Of era. Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. DR. S. JOHNSON: London, Men of your large profession that could speak To every cause, and things mere... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - Puritans - 1897 - 356 pages
...this kind, or he would not, in his ' London,' have put such a passion of disgust into the linesHere falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. Very possibly the female atheist is a capital talker on the stage, politics, or literature. Get her... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...spares, with age decay; Here, malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; IO Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. While Thaïes waits the wherry that contains 2° Of dissipated wealth the small remains, On Thames's banks... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 310 pages
...attorneys, against whom Goldsmith must have had some grudge. But so apparently had Johnson : — • " Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey" he sings in 11. 15-16 of London. Goldsmith makes it the "failing" of Hickey in Retaliation, 1. 136,... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott - English literature - 1904 - 334 pages
...and direct, — [155] "Here malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead, — " the contrasting praises of the country are absolutely commonplace and artificial, perhaps the... | |
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Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. 
