 Well, after many a sad reproach, They got into a hackney coach, And trotted down the street. I saw them go : one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet.  Sunday: Reading for the Young - Page 61884Full view - About this book
 | Henry Morley - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 332 pages
...reproach, They got into a hackney coach, And trotted down the street. I saw them go : one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. The chaise in which poor brother Bill Used to be drawn to Pentonville, Stood in the lumber-room : I... | |
 | Louise Frances Field - 1886 - 160 pages
...to Bryda's taste, however much Grandmother might appreciate their steady ways. They were like those horses of whom the little girl in the poem could find...short drive every day, one day along one of the roads outside the lodge gates, and the next day along the other, turn about, and always to the same distance,... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1887 - 476 pages
...sweep to the door ; two large horses, sleek and fat with over-many oats and over-little work, draw it. "The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet." " Give me your arm, Miss Craven ; one is very apt to fall this frosty weather," says the old lady,... | |
 | American poetry - 1889 - 532 pages
...reproach, They got into a hackney-coach, And trotted down the street. I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. 172. Thus undisturbed by anxious cares, His peaceful moments ran; And everybody said he was A fine... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1889 - 536 pages
...reproach. They got into a hackney-coach, And trotted down the street. I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. 172. Thus undisturbed by anxious cares, His peaceful moments ran; And everybody said he was A fine... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1894 - 288 pages
...reproach, They got into a hackney coach And trotted down the street. I saw them go : one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. The chaise in which poor brother Bill Used to be drawn to Pentonville Stood in the lumber-room : I... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - Authors, American - 1895 - 344 pages
...Hilda. Do you know anything of the people ?" Hildegarde quoted : "'I saw them come; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet.' "Mr. and Mrs. Miles Merry weather, six children, cook, housemaid and seamstress, two dogs, two cats... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...and blew out his brains down in Frisco? q. BRET HARTE- Chiguita. I saw them go ; one horse was blind. 1 r. WORDSWORTH — See H. and J. Smith's Rejected Addresses. The Baby's Dfhut. ANIMALS— HORSE. ANIMALS—... | |
 | 1900 - 872 pages
...reproach They got into a hackney coach, And trotted down the street; I saw them go; one horse was blind. The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet. Naturally, this puerile habit of simple enumeration is eagerly noted by the caricaturist, and Mr. Quiller-Couch... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...reproach, They got into a hackney coach, And trotted down the street. I saw them go : one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet The chaise in which poor brother Bill Used to be drawn to Pentonville, Stood in the lumber-room : I... | |
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