 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1906 - 438 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare. Lo, here, how I stand ' (and he gazed all around), ' As safe and as steady as if on the ground, Yet... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906 - 520 σελίδες
...to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; 10 With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...Sure, never," he thought, " was a creature so rare, 15 So docile, so true, as my excellent mare ; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, " As... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1907 - 396 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, " As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909 - 308 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...he gathered the fruit till he took his good fill. 28 "Sure never," he thought, "was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare ; Lo,... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens - 1913 - 368 σελίδες
...erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. " Sure never,"...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer - 1913 - 352 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of the steed ; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit till he... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 308 σελίδες
...from the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, u "Sure never," he thought, "was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - 232 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Effie Belle McFadden - 1915 - 388 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gathcr'd the fruit till he took his good fill. "Sure never," he thought, "was a creature so rare, So... | |
 | Newfoundland Council of Higher Education - 1915 - 232 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. (18) 7. Write a brief account (about eight lines) of... | |
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He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took... 
