was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare ; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, " As safe and as steady as if on the ground ; Yet how had it been, if some traveller this way, Had, dreaming... McFadden Language Series: Grammar and Composition - Stran 98avtor: Effie Belle McFadden - 1915 - 348 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1831 - 314 strani
...des Mures. The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's...saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took his good fill. " Sure never," he thought, " was a creature so rare,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1831 - 316 strani
...295 The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for die fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen...saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took his good fill. " Sure never," he thought, * was a creature so rare,... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 strani
...thirsty to boot ! He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested hU courser's keen speed. And he stood up erect on the...saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took his good fill. ' Sure never,' he thought, ' was a creature so rare,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 strani
...fruit. 3. The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot : He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, Then stood up erect on the back of his steed ; On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept still,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 strani
...beautiful fruit. 3 The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot : He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, Then stood up erect on the back of his steed ; On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept still,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1856 - 514 strani
...beautiful fruit. The curate was hungry and thirsty to boot.j He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's...saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took MB good fill. " Sure never," he thought, " was a creature so rare,... | |
| 1857 - 448 strani
...the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, Then stood up erect, on the back of his steed ; On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept still, And he gather'd the fruit, till he'd taken his fill. " Sure, never," he said, " was a creature... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 strani
...beautiful fruit. 3. The curate was hungry, and thirsty to boot: He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, Then stood up erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood, while the creature kept still,... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 strani
...glow'd, The good priest discover'd, with eyes of desire, A mulberry-tree in a hedge of wild briar ; On boughs long and lofty, in many a green shoot. Hung...saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. ' Sure never,' he thought, ' was a creature so rare,... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 198 strani
...glow'd, The good Priest discover'd, with eyes of desire, A mulberry-tree in a hedge of wild briar ; On boughs long and lofty, in many a green shoot, Hung,...saddle he stood while the creature stood still ; And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. " Sure never," he thought, " was a creature so rare,... | |
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