 ... rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang,...  Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best Monor Poems ... - Page 791876 - 543 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...Kolaud his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. SCENE FROM CATILINE. (rROi.v.) [In the Senate.] Cicero. Our long dispute must close. Take one proof... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer, Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. CXCIX. THE SWORD. 9fT\ WAS on the battle-field ; and the cold pale moon Looked down on the dead and... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 pages
...my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped, and...consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news to Ghent.' Art. X. (1.) Die Verfassung der Kirchc der Zukunft. Prahtische Erliiuterungen zu dem Brieficechsel... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground, And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As 1 poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. (By permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hatt.) 3.— THE FIELD OF WATERLOO. LORD BYRON. [See p. 205.]... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. APOSTROPHE TO WATER. surrounded by the stench of sickening odors and rank corruptions, doth our Father... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 pages
...laughed and sang, any noise, bad or g'xx], Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all l remember is friends flocking round As I sate with...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. R. Browning. cxcu. THE B WORD. »rp WAS on the battle-field ; and the cold pale moon Looked down on... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground, And no...last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by cimmon consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. Browning. Ex. 15O. The Isles... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on tho ground, And no voice but was praising this Eoland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure...burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his duo who brought good news from Ghent. EXERCISE.— 9. PARSING, ETC 1. Turn the first and last verse... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and...who brought good news from Ghent. ROBERT BROWNING. lory. NOW glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are! And glory to our sovereign liege,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...Roland his pet name, niy horse without peer, — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or t yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed...sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief ; A -ff INCIDENT OF THE FKENCH CAMP. You know we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away, On a little... | |
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