 Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folks so glad ; The stones did "rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.  Poems - Page 221by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...That, though on pleasure ehe was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest...doors off the chaise was stayed, Where they did all got in ; Sit precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1853 - 382 pages
...was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allow'd To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud. So three doors off the chaise was stay'd, Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin.... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1853 - 800 pages
...was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allow'd To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud. So three doors off the chaise was stay 'd, Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allow'd To drive up to the door, lest all se Should say that she was proud. So three doors off the chaise was stay'd, Where they did all get in, Six precious souk, and all agog 40 To dash through thick and thin.... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...st, a Darlings, — The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, SHAKESPEARE, Othello, i, 2 Dash, — Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin, COWPER, John Gilpin, st, 10 1What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The... | |
 | Charlotte Chaffee Gibson - Asia - 1906 - 284 pages
...out-rigger (two arms stretched out with a beam between) to keep the balance. We got into one of these, — " six precious souls, and all agog to dash through thick and thin," — and were rowed out some distance to meet the waves. When a good breaker came we turned very quickly... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought; But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest...went the whip, round went the wheels • Were never folks so glad; The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad. John Gilpin at his horse's... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1908 - 280 pages
...though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. 9. The morning came, the chaise was brought, But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud. 10. So three doors off the chaise was stayed, Where they did all get in, — Six precious souls, and... | |
 | Charlotte Chaffee Gibson - Asia - 1908 - 280 pages
...out-rigger (two arms stretched out with a beam between) to keep the balance. We got into one of these, — " six precious souls, and all agog to dash through thick and thin," — and were rowed out some distance to meet the waves. When a good breaker came we turned very quickly... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - Readers - 1909 - 296 pages
...though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. The morning came, the chaise was brought,But yet was not allowed To drive up to the door, lest...they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad, The stones did rattle underneath,... | |
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