 Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.  Poems - Page 228by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1853 - 382 pages
...gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry : — Stop thief ! stop thief ! — a highwayman...passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space ; The toll-men thinking as before, That Gilpin rode a... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1853 - 800 pages
...gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scamp'ring in the rear, They rais'd the hue and cry : — Stop thief ! stop thief ! — a highwayman...\ Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scamp'ring in the rear, They rais'd the hue and cry : — ^ S^op thief! stop thief! — a highwayman?^ Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in Hie pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 520 pages
...Gilpin fly, With poftboy fcampering in the rear, They raifed the hue and cry : — Stop thief! ftop thief! — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pafled that way Did join in the purfuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in fhort fpace... | |
 | Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga - 1854 - 398 pages
...gentlemen upon the road Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry : Stop thief ! stop thief ! a highwayman !...each that passed that way, Did join in the pursuit." FEW districts in Italy — and if not there, I should like to know in what other region of the known... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...gentlemen upon the road Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With post-boy scampering in the rear, They reused the hue and cry : " Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman...!" Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike-gates again Flew open in short space... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...gentlemen upon the road Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry. Stop thief, stop thief— a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute, And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...gentlemen upon the road Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry. Stop thief, stop thief — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute, And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...road Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry : 60 Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. 61 And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space,... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 334 pages
...With postboy scampering in the rear, 235 They raised the hue and cry: '' Stop thief! stop thief!—a highwayman!'' Not one of them was mute; And all and...each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. 2*0 And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The tollmen thinking, as before, That... | |
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