 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 ページ
...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,...brim, And with circles of red for his eyesockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
 | 1850 - 536 ページ
...lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which could alone save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits...Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 600 ページ
...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,...for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. 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... | |
 | 1846 - 534 ページ
...roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And then was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,...Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer... | |
 | 1847 - 592 ページ
...fronted many a shivering lance, will yet save the lovers, for see how he flies, " With his nostrJs like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-socketó' rim." Do not despair, then, of meeting them next month enjoying the rewaid of their devotion.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 ページ
...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,...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
 | 1850 - 538 ページ
...dead as a stone; •-' And there was my Roland to bear the whale weight Of the news which could alone save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, ),, ,Al»d with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. t.- • if IX i ' ''tk'fhen I cast loose my... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 ページ
...roan Rolled neck and crop 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,...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
 | George Wilson - 1852 - 336 ページ
...First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 ページ
...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,...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and... | |
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for Aix is in sight!" VIII. "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... 
