 | Robert Cruikshank - English wit and humor - 1832 - 294 pages
...tugs round a mill, Or draws sand, till the sand of his hour-glass stands still. VIII. And now, cold and lifeless, expos'd to the view, In the very same...surrounds, The High-Mettled Racer is sold for the hounds. TBS FOLLOWING INTERESTING of tfie ARK EXTRACTED FR'OM CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWti's ' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Animal welfare - 1838 - 246 pages
...scarcely able to sustain his own weight, broken-winded, spavined, lanie, and blind :— " And now, cold and lifeless, expos'd to the view, In the very same...surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds.' * Such histories as this among the animal tribes are too common in this Christian land to call forth... | |
 | Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - 396 pages
...mill, Or draws sand till the sand of his hour-glass stands still— And now, cold and lifeless, exposed to the view, In the very same cart which he yesterday...surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds." Although last, and, perhaps, least to be consideredj in the review of all essentials in the appointments... | |
 | Henry Drury - English poetry - 1841 - 294 pages
...mill, Or draws sand, till the sand of his hour-glass stands still. And now cold and lifeless, exposed to the view, In the very same cart which he yesterday...surrounds, The high-mettled Racer is sold for the hounds. Dibdin. THE BATTLE OF GLADSMUIR. The Battle of Gladsmuir, it was a noble stour, And weel do we ken... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...sand, till the sand of his hour-glass stands still. And now cold and lifeless, exposed to the view, Tn the very same cart which he yesterday drew, While...surrounds, The high-mettled Racer is sold for the hounds. DIBDIN. THE BATTLE OF GLADSMUIR. THE Battle of Gladsmuir, it was a noble stour, And weel do we ken... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...; And now, cold and lifeless, exposed to view In the very same cart which he yesterday drew; Whilst a pitying crowd his sad relics surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds. CEASE, CEASE ; THOSE SIGHS I CANNOT BEAR. CEASE, cease ; those sighs I cannot bear ; Hark! hark ! the... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - Ballads, English - 1850 - 424 pages
...sand till the sand of his hour-glass stands still. And now cold and lifeless exposed to the view Tn the very same cart which he yesterday drew; While...surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds ! COMELY NED. GIVE ear to me, both high and low, And, while you mourn hard fate's decree, Lament a... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...to his fate; Blind, old, lean, and feeble, he tugs round a mill, And now, cold and lifeless, exposed to the view In the very same cart which he yesterday drew ; Whilst a pitying crowd his sad relics surroundsThe high-mettled racer is sold to the hounds. TOM... | |
 | Horse racing - 1857 - 274 pages
...mill, Or draws sand, till the sand of his hourglass stands still. And now cold and lifeless, exposed to the view, In the very same cart which he yesterday...surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds. The annual Jockey Club ball always takes place, as has been stated, on Friday evening of the race week.... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...mill, Or draws sand, till the sand of his hour-glass stands still ; And now, cold and lifeless, exposed to the view In the very same cart which he yesterday drew ; Whilst a pitying crowd his sad relics surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold to the hounds. FOB... | |
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and lifeless, expos'd to the view, In the very same cart which he yesterday drew ; While a pitying crowd his sad relics surrounds, The high-mettled racer is sold for the hounds. 
