| Edward Pett Thompson - 1851 - 434 ページ
...character of its own : 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. The science both of horse- and dog-breaking rests entirely on this rule, for till the breaker thoroughly... | |
| 1864 - 556 ページ
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1852 - 466 ページ
...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 the beginning. I always admitted them in to the parlour after •upper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk,... | |
| William Cowper - 1853 - 522 ページ
...warned, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Pufs was tamed by gentle ufage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Befs had a...thoufand gambols, in which Befs, being remarkably ftrong and fearlefs, was always fuperior to the reft, and proved himfelf the Veftris of the party.... | |
| William Cowper - 1853 - 796 ページ
...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...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... | |
| William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 ページ
...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 holdt they would frisk, and bound, and play... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 806 ページ
...was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tnmed at all: and Bess had a courage and confidencB that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when the carpet affordvng their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound and play a thousand... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 520 ページ
...performed his feats with such a solemnity of manner, that in him too I had an agreeable companion. dence 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 would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand... | |
| 1845 - 392 ページ
...drollery of his antics. "Puss "was tamed by gentle usage, " Tiney " was not to be tamed at all, but "Bess" had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. He died, however, sooa after he was full. grown, through. sleeping in a damp box. " Tiney" lived to... | |
| Robert Benton Seeley - 1855 - 294 ページ
...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... | |
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