 Each sought his pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red or blue, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin...  Rejected Addresses: Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum - Page 48by James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Smith - 1860 - 460 pages
...pond'rous hobnail' d shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red...crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunderd through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet... | |
 | James Smith - 1860 - 456 pages
...pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each...crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder'd through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...ponderous hob-nail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced; Then jacket thick of red...crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder'd through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1871 - 444 pages
...pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, Whose massy shoulder gave to view The badge of each...respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder 'd through the street. Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | 1871 - 930 pages
...pond'rous hob-nail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red or blue, Whose mossy shoulder gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...ponderous hobnail'd shoes ; But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next in crimson dyed, he varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd thunder' d through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1874 - 332 pages
...pond'rous hobnail' d shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick of red...respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder' d through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 pages
...pond'rous hobnail'd shoes. But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red or blue, Whose massy shoulders gave to view The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thunder'd... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...ponderous hobnailed shoes ; But first his worsted hosen plied. Plush breeches next in crimson dyed His nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick of red...respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thundered through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...broken snooze, Each sought his pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush od, And fuu jht beneath the cross of God: Now, strange...clang sounds strange to my ear XIII. " In these far through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet... | |
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