 | Thomas Sheridan - Authors, English - 1787 - 528 pages
...fkin. I afked the man if he would fell him, which he readily confented to upon my offering him fomewhat more than the price of the hide, which was all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of fome of my fchool-fellows, and to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...Kilkenny, and in the " lower form, I longed very much to have a horse " of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man " leading a very mangy lean horse...than the price of " the hide, which was all the money 1 had in the " world. I immediately got on him, to the great " envy of some of my schoolfellows, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 500 pages
...Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day 1 saw:a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out of the...than the price of the hide, which was all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some -of my schoolfellows, and to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 686 pages
...at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out...than the price of the hide, which was all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some of my schoolfellows, and to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor roan leading a very mangy lean horse out of the town to...him somewhat more than the price of the hide, which -.•>.;.-, all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 pages
...at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out...friend had deemed symptoms of passion, to an active and restless temper, incapable of enduring idleness, and, therefore, catching at such opportunities of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, Irish - 1826 - 334 pages
...at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out...somewhat more than the price of the hide, which was alt the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some of my schoolfellows,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out...friend had deemed symptoms of passion, to an active and restless temper, incapable of enduring idleness, and, therefore, catching at such opportunities of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1829 - 388 pages
...much of the tragic mood to accord exactly with his account of those petty intrigues, in which One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out...than the price of the hide, which was all the money I had in the world. I immediately got on him, to the great envy of some of my schoolfellows, and to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...much of the tragic mood to accord exactly with his account of those petty intrigues, in which One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out of the town to kill him fur the skin. I asked the man if he would sell him, which he readily consented to, upon my offering... | |
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When I was a schoolboy at Kilkenny, and in the lower form, I longed very much to have a horse of my own to ride on. One day I saw a poor man leading a very mangy lean horse out of the town to kill him for the skin. I asked the man if he would sell him,... 
