 | Charles Underwood Dasent - Language and languages - 1877 - 238 pages
...trisyllabic metre, which is chiefly dactylic, steadied every now and then by a monosyllabic foot. " Not' a word' to each o'ther ; we kept' the great pace', Neck' by neck', stride by stride', never changing our place'; I' turn'd' in my sad'dle, and made' its girths tight', Then'... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; 1 galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed !" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew...other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight ; Then shortened... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...city. ISPBANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;...to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. 2. Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good-speed !" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed...the wall to us galloping through ; Behind, shut the postern,3 the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed! " cried the watch as the gatebolts undrew, • " Speed 1 " echoed the wall to us galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank tc rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace... | |
 | 1878 - 572 pages
...— " I sprang to the saddle, and Joris, and he, I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three. ' Good speed,' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; ' Speed,' echoed the walls to us galloping through." I was reflecting on the peculiar appropriateness to our gallop of the... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 144 pages
...galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; "Good speed 1 " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through...to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. II Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Aix 35 I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners...their savours. (II, ii) E1L; FaPON; GN; InvP; NOBE; OB (1. 1—6) 36 I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris. and he; I galloped. Dirck galloped, we galloped all three. 'God Speed!' cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew;...other, we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our pace; I turned in my saddle, and . . . and . . .' After a few lines he... | |
 | Raymond Monelle - Music - 2010 - 265 pages
...Browning: I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew;...to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ("How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" [16 — ./; In music, too, there was often a reference... | |
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I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed! 
