 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gallM 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feel, The snorting beast began to I rot, So " Fair and softly," John he cried ; But 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 - 1854 - 806 pages
...beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he criod in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping clown, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, lie grasp'd the mane with botli his And eke with all... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 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...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 - 1855 - 798 pages
...smoother road .' « .' Beneath his well shod feet, . The snorting beast began to trotj Which gnll'U 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 Aiaiht And eke with all his might. His hone, who never in that sort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat So, fair and softly, Jolm he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became...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 Maginn - 1855 - 408 pages
...Linendraper has been sufficiently apparent ; but it is much more striking after they have fairly started. 44 So, fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried...vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb or rein. '4 So stooping down, us needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both... | |
 | William Maginn - 1855 - 408 pages
...foamed, away, away !' " In one very remarkable particular, John Gilpin is distinguished from Mazeppa. " So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both bis hands, And eke with all his might.' 1 On the contrary, Mazeppa says, " With sudden wrath I wrenched... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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 which never in that sort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 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... | |
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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. 
