 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...was won, The headmost Horseman rode alone. VII. Alone, but with unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel ; For, jaded now, and spent with...with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring stag strained full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...won, The headmost Horseman rode alone. • VII. Alone, but with unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel ; For, jaded now, and spent with...with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring Stag strained full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed. Unmatched for courage,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel; For, jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss'd with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew. The labouring Stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of blaek Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage*... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel; For jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss'd with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring Stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel; For jaded now, and spent with toil, Em boss' d with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 pages
...unabated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel ; For, jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss'd with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew The lab 'ring stag strain 'd full in view, Two dogs of black St. Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 266 pages
...That horseman plied the scourge and steel; For jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss' d withfnam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage,... | |
 | Edward Hungerford D. Elers Napier - Hunting - 1840 - 662 pages
...at a most crippled pace — 18 THE BUCK'S LAST HOUR. '' For, jaded now and spent with toil, Emboss'd with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The lab'ri-ng buck strain'd full in view." Even in this lamentable state he gave me more trouble than I... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel ; For jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss' d with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel ; For, jaded now, and spent with toil, Emboss'd with foam, and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The labouring Stag strain'd full in view. Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's ' breed, Unmatch'd for courage,... | |
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Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For. scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive... 
