| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1883 - 240 Seiten
...great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiny was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. 9. I always brought them into the parlour after supper, when they would frisk and bound, and play a... | |
| Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 Seiten
...great humour and drollery3. Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiny was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a * courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning 6. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when (S. 131, N. 4), the6 carpet affording... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 200 Seiten
...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... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1885 - 782 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1892 - 742 Seiten
...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 - 530 Seiten
...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 - 430 Seiten
...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 - 716 Seiten
...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 - 1098 Seiten
...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... | |
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