...be readily perceived that both chair and chairman were the great humorist's aversion. He says : — Or, box'd within the chair, contemn the street, And trust their safety to another's feet. And again — The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns, The glasses shatter, and his charge o'erturns....

...the external London of his time, has put it thus: " Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in a leaky boat the Thames divide, Or box'd within the...their safety to another's feet: Still let me walk." Such characteristic features as are properly applicable to the Thames have been dealt with in the chapter...

...the external London of his time, has put it thus: " Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in a leaky boat the Thames divide, Or box'd within the...their safety to another's feet: Still let me walk." Such characteristic features as are properly applicable to the Thames have been dealt with in the chapter...

...e'er making tigger." Gay seems to have shared the watermen's disgust at both coach and sedan. " Boxed within the chair, contemn the street And trust their safety to another's feet," he says of those willing to use the chair. In another place he is comparing the two : — " The gilded...

...breath ; Nor from your restless couch is heard the groan Of burning gout, or sedentary stone. 5™ Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the...oft' the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail, Then shall the passenger too late deplore The whelming billow, and the faithless oar...

...for breath ; Nor from your restless couch is heard the groan Of burning gout, or sedentary stone. 510 Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the...oft' the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail. Then shall the passenger too late deplore The whelming billow, and the faithless oar...