| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - Страниц: 414
...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 the...and play a thousand gambols, in which Bess, being strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the 9Vestris of the party.... | |
| Hermann Lange - 1883 - Страниц: 294
...from the beginning 6. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when (S. 131, N. 4), the6 carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would...frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols, in 7 which Bess, being remarkably strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening, the... | |
| Vernon S. Morwood - 1883 - Страниц: 352
...treat his pets to a 'carpet-dance' in the lonely evenings, on which occasions, 'Bess being remarkabably strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.' Bess was cut off in the prime of life. Tiny lived to be nine years old, and Puss survived him two years.... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - Страниц: 200
...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 the...always superior to the rest, and proved himself the chief of the party. " One evening the cat being in the room had the hardiness to pat Bess on the cheek,... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - Страниц: 240
...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 the...and play a thousand gambols, in which Bess, being strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the 9 Vestris of the party.... | |
| 1885 - Страниц: 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...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 thousand... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1893 - Страниц: 294
...pleasantly, " shall I give you a piece of cutlet ? " After supper the hares were admitted, when the Turkey carpet "affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk and bound, and play a thousand gambols." The poet's bedroom was the large one over the hall. II. THE SUMMER-HOUSE. From Cowper's house a gravel... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - Страниц: 530
...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 the...superior to the rest, and proved himself the Vestris l of the party. One evening, the cat, being in the room, had the hardiness to pat Bess upon the 1 A... | |
| William Cowper - 1896 - Страниц: 196
...solemnity of manner, that in him too I had an agreeable companion." Cowper always admitted them to the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording...would frisk and bound, and play a thousand gambols. He says that sow-thistle, dandelion, and lettuce were their favourite vegetables, especially the last.... | |
| 1912 - Страниц: 870
...rump around," and "Bess," the courageous and Independent one, who died soon after he was fullgrown, "was always superior to the rest and proved himself the Vestris of the party." The hare In its youthful games learns how to leap and turn, but probably not bow to course, but the... | |
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