 for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils...  Keats to Morris - Page 421by Rossiter Johnson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Delhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us!" —and all in a moment his roan Rolled...rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pages
...greet us," and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And then was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. ' Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " VIII. " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...for Aix is in sight! . " How they'll greet us!"—and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland...rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! " How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for bis eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
..." for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neek and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with cireles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook... | |
 | George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim." The good horse Roland reaches the distressed city in time, and is rewarded by the grateful citizens... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aii is in sight ! " " How they '11 greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled...rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone j And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
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