 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 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 His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So " Fair and...his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, which never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 306 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,...trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 562 pages
...snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, fair and softly ! Jobn he cried, But Jobn he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon,...stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, Hegrasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...and good heed ; But finding soon a smoother road beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, which galled him in his seat. So, " Fair...grasped the mane with both his hands, and eke with all bis might. His horse, who never in that sort had handled been before, What thing upon his back had... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 pages
...good heed. But finding, soon, a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. " So ! fair...soon, In spite of curb and rein. So, stooping down, as need he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 738 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...in vain ; The trot became a gallop soon, in spite of curb or rein. 35 So stooping down, as he needs must who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, and eke with all his might. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought, away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt, when he set out, of running... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 44 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, But John he cried in vain; The trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, (as needs he must Who cannot... | |
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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. 
