 He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought; Away went hat and wig; He little...  British Minstrel - Page 95by John Struthers - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Owen Madden - Ireland - 1843 - 376 pages
...shew the state of affairs during the rule of Lord Anglesey. CHAPTER XIV THE RIG OF FERGUS O'CONNOR. " He little dreamt when he set out. Of running such a rig." JOHN GILFIS'S Hide. FROM the Revolution to the passing of the Reform Bill, the County Cork had been... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin neck or nought, Away went hat and...fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung, A bottle... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon hie back had got Did wonder more and more. luggishly melted away. Thus is a people gradually...slow changes in the system of empire. The public failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Oilpin, bat I was brought to my idleness by degrees ; irrt...seized with a jaií fever at iht- time of the assizes b failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; Л... | |
 | Opie Staite - Mesmerism - 1844 - 114 pages
..."as rated spaniel takes his burden up;" and that he possessed but little " knowledge of the world;" " He little dreamt when he set out, Of running such a rig! " " I shall stop here, and look at all the flowers, they appear to be all now. Here is a handsome one,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought, Away went hat and...fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; —... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and...Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or naught; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt when he set...Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and...when he set out, Of running such a rig. The wind did blouf, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay. Till, loop and button failing both, At last it... | |
 | W. H. Leigh - Australia - 1847 - 244 pages
...glad voyagers that, after all their troubles, at length they were calmly at rest. CHAPTER XVIII, ' He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig."— -JoHN GILPIN. " OH, it 'sa beautiful world ! and here we are all for the shore ! Oh, it 'sa glorious... | |
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