 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 Parton - 1884 - 734 pages
...pond'rous hobnailed shoe*,, 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... | |
 | 1886 - 300 pages
...pond'rous hobnail'd shoes, Hut 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... | |
 | Francis Boyer Relton - 1893 - 610 pages
...hobnail'd shoes, But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson died, His-nether bulk embraced ; Then jacket thick, of red or blue,...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 pages
...crimson dyed, His nether limbs 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 thundered through 'the street, Fire-hook, pick, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...pond'rous hobnailed 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 10 The badge of each respective crew, In tin or copper traced. The engines thundered through the street,... | |
 | 1901 - 686 pages
...crimson dyed, His nether limbs 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 thundered through the street, Fire-hook, pick, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | 1902 - 270 pages
...pond'rous hobnailed 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...ponderous hobnailed shoes ; But first his worsted hosen plied, Plush breeches next, in crimson dyed, thundered through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering... | |
 | J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White - 1912 - 620 pages
...pond'rous hobnailed 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... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 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 thunder'd through the street, Fire-hook, pipe, bucket, all complete, And torches glared, and clattering feet... | |
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