 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. Away went Gilpin neck or...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4361819Full view - About this book
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...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...; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...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...; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and /y Ҫ= & ] ֑ o w e >ܘS դ 9bt Vzц c7 HE B͟t ) grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 pages
...Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So "Fair and softly," John he cried, But John he cried in vain...; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, 'Fair and softly.' John he cried, 86 es, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, 90 He grasped the mane with both... | |
 | George Carver - 1930 - 408 pages
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 | 1930 - 516 pages
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