 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 223by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...to trot, Which galled him in his seat. [1] When Ida exercise— as captain of one of the trainbands. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gailM him in his seat. So, Fair and softly ! John he cried; But John he eried in vain, That trot beeame a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Wkich gall'd him in his seat. 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. So, stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1905 - 516 pages
...else to do, At length must needs forsake His role of looker-on, to put The clutch in by mistake ! " So, fair and softly ! " John, he cried, But John he cried in vain ; The car began to move as though 'Twould never stop again. And fast and faster grew the pace : For,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath hi« well-shod feet, The snorting beast began we keep in store One became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. 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. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright,... | |
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