The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, EsqJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797 - 325 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 24
... horses , to clean fhoes , to perform errands , and to do all the jobs of the family ; and in the discharge of thefe fervices , he foon gave univer- fal fatisfaction . He was indefatigable in doing what he was ordered , never grumbled ...
... horses , to clean fhoes , to perform errands , and to do all the jobs of the family ; and in the discharge of thefe fervices , he foon gave univer- fal fatisfaction . He was indefatigable in doing what he was ordered , never grumbled ...
الصفحة 25
... horse , which he ma- naged with infinite dexterity .. Jack too discovered a great difpofition for all the useful and mechanic arts . He had ferved an apprenticeship already to the manufactory of iron , and of this he was almost as vain ...
... horse , which he ma- naged with infinite dexterity .. Jack too discovered a great difpofition for all the useful and mechanic arts . He had ferved an apprenticeship already to the manufactory of iron , and of this he was almost as vain ...
الصفحة 26
... horses , he learnt to make and fix a shoe as neatly as any artist in the coun- try . Nor were Jack's talents confined to the ma- nufactory of iron ; his love of horses was fo great , and his interest in every thing that related to them ...
... horses , he learnt to make and fix a shoe as neatly as any artist in the coun- try . Nor were Jack's talents confined to the ma- nufactory of iron ; his love of horses was fo great , and his interest in every thing that related to them ...
الصفحة 27
... horse , which Jack looked after , and not contented with looking after him in the best manner , he used to ride him at his leisure hours with fo much care and address , that in a fhort time he made him the moft gentle and docile little ...
... horse , which Jack looked after , and not contented with looking after him in the best manner , he used to ride him at his leisure hours with fo much care and address , that in a fhort time he made him the moft gentle and docile little ...
الصفحة 45
... horse . But in this attempt they were equally disappointed ; for another confiderable body of enemies appeared on that fide , and blocked their paffage . The Europeans now found they were furrounded on all fides , and that refiftance ...
... horse . But in this attempt they were equally disappointed ; for another confiderable body of enemies appeared on that fide , and blocked their paffage . The Europeans now found they were furrounded on all fides , and that refiftance ...
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الصفحة 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
الصفحة 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
الصفحة 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
الصفحة 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
الصفحة 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
الصفحة 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
الصفحة 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
الصفحة 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
الصفحة 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
الصفحة 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.