 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
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1915 - 392 pages
...good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, is The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, " Fair...John he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon, •M In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 658 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, "Fair and...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... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - Children's poetry - 1915 - 232 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... | |
 | Adventure stories - 1916 - 314 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, "Fair and...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... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - 1917 - 396 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, "Fair and...John he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon, So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1917 - 364 pages
...third person after its noun, as may be seen in various old ballads and their modem imitations. Thus: So, fair and softly, John he cried; But John he cried in vain; The trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. PERSONIFICATION IN PRONOUNS Personification... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Authors, American - 1917 - 614 pages
...exhort you to patience; for I beg it may not be said of me, as was said of the immortal Gilpin: " ' So! fair and softly!' John he cried, but John he cried in vain." Henry and Stearns Wheeler walked up from Cambridge last week. Henry blistered his feet very badly;... | |
 | George E. Teter - American poetry - 1918 - 456 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So "Fair and...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, n we shall clearly see and understand, I think that we will say, "God knew become a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. * So "Fair...John he cried; But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. . He grasped the mane with both his hands And eke... | |
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