 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. . So, " Fair and softly," John he...down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, fair and softly, John he cried,...down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with' both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, Fair and softly, John he cried,...down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands. And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | John Struthers - 1822 - 276 pages
...The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So " fair and softly," John did cry; But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rem So stooping down, as he needs must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mar.e with both his hands,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...Which gall'd him in his sesst. " So, fair and softly," John he cried ; But John he cried in vain ; The trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein....down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright ; He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...finding soon a smoother road, Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, " fair and softly," John he cried,...down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And elte with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, Fair and softly, John he cried,...down as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gat I'd him in his seat. So, fair and softly, John he cried,...down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 470 pages
...finding soon a smoother road, Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, " fair and softly," John he cried,...down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasp 'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...fmding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, fair and softly, John he cried,...down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
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He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. 
