 Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they...  Poems, - Strana 354podľa William Cowper - 1803 - Počet stránok 363Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - Počet stránok 200
...full-grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, after it had been washed, and while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. " Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all; and Bess had a courage and confidence... | |
 | 1885 - Počet stránok 782
...us in one letter, " was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had the courage and confidence that made him tame from the...beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, whore the carpet afforded their feet a firm hold ; they would frisk, and bound, and play a... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - Počet stránok 240
...full grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - Počet stránok 742
...force me to a smile." " Puss was tamed by gentle usage, Tiney was not to be tamed at all, and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning." " These creatures," continues Cowper—for all along we have been quoting from his charming paper in... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - Počet stránok 530
...great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from...beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand... | |
 | Henry Anderson Bryden - 1903 - Počet stránok 430
...Bess," the third of this singular trio, was, says Cowper, " a hare of great humour and drollery ; he had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning." The poet always admitted the three hares into the parlour after supper, " when, the carpet affording... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 716
...great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from...beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand... | |
 | R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - Počet stránok 1098
...great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiner was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from...beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when the carpet afforded their feet a firm hold ; they would friak, and bound, anl play a thousand... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - Počet stránok 584
...gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. • ,..-:-• a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlor after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound,... | |
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