 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.  Poems - Page 249by William Cowper - 1787Full view - About this book
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasped 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 520 pages
...foftly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop foon, In fpite of curb and rein. So ftooping down, as needs he muft Who cannot...upright, He grafp'd the mane with both his hands, His horfe, who never in that fort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1853 - 382 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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 his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Hud handled been before, What tiling upon his back had got Did wonder... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...and softly, John he cried, 23 So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. 24 His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...soon, In spite of curb and rain. So stooping 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 Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Maginn - 1855 - 408 pages
...distinguished from Mazcppa. " So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might." Ou the contrary, Mazeppa says, " Wiih sudden wrath I wrenched my hand, And snapped the cord, which... | |
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