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" Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. "
The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice ... - Page 284
by William Cowper - 1855
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Letture inglesi: coordinate al programma governativo dei licei e corredate ...

Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...: Stop thief! stop thief — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike...and won it too ! — For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing — Long live the king, And...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...hue and cry : Stop thief, stop thief — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And...had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, Long live the king, And Gilpin long live he ; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...the hue and cry: Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each o death nor change: their might Exceeds our organs,...of snows In the Acroceraunian mountains, — From — Long live the king, And Gilpin long live he; And, when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there...
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Reading and Literature, Book 1

Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 pages
...Stop thief ! Stop thief ! — a highwayman ! " Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike...did, and won it too, For he got first to town, Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, Long live the King, And Gilpin,...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. 240 And now the turnpike-gates again Flew open in short space, The toll-men thinking...Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, 246 For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let...
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William Cowper: Selected Poems

William Cowper - 2003 - 124 pages
...highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. 240 And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short...stopp'd till where he had got up He did again get down. 248 Now let us sing— Long live the king, And Gilpin long live he; And, when he next doth ride abroad,...
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