 | American poetry - 1875 - 432 pages
...pollards, where you see the swan ? JACK. Hist ! That's a pike. Look — nose against the river, Gaunt as wolf, — the sly old privateer ! Enter a gudgeon....shiver ; — Exit the gudgeon. Let us anchor here. FEANK (in the grass}. Jove, what a day ! Black Care upon the crupper Nods at his post, and slumbers... | |
 | Fishing - 1888 - 228 pages
...! That's a pike. Look — nose against the river, Gaunt as a wolf — the sly old privateer ! Knter a gudgeon. Snap, — a gulp, a shiver ; Exit the gudgeon. Let us anchor here." And can be gently satirical on the "contemplative man's recreation" : " Sing you again. So musical... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1889 - 296 pages
...are fewer, There by the pollards, where you see the swan 1 JACK. Hist ! That 'sa pike. Look — nose against the river Gaunt as a wolf, — the sly old...the grass). Jove, what a day ! Black Care upon the cropper Nods at his post, and slumbers in the sun ; Half of Theocritus, with a touch of Tupper, Chums... | |
 | Henry Anderson Bryden - Cape - 1889 - 500 pages
...shone brilliantly, but the air upon these mountain ranges was clear and wonderfully exhilarating. " Jove ! what a day ; black care upon the crupper Nods at his post and slumbers in the sun." No cares, indeed, had we as merrily we drove along—anon changing company by changing vehicles. The... | |
 | Henry Anderson Bryden - Game and game-birds - 1889 - 534 pages
...shone brilliantly, but the air upon these mountain ranges was clear and wonderfully exhilarating. " Jove ! what a day ; black care upon the crupper Nods at his post and slumbers in the sun." No cares, indeed, had we as merrily we drove along — anon changing company by changing vehicles.... | |
 | Mary Prudence Wells Smith - Adventure stories - 1889 - 286 pages
...Look, — nose against the river ! Gaunt as a wolf, — the sly old privateer ! ' " quoted Gifford. " ' Enter a gudgeon. Snap ! a gulp, a shiver. Exit the gudgeon. Let us anchor here,' and get some of these glorious blossoms for Aunt Senie," said Herbert, leaping ashore. He strolled... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English poetry - 1895 - 306 pages
...are fewer, There by the pollards, where you see the swan ? JACK. Hist I That 'sa pike. Look — nose against the river, Gaunt as a wolf, — the sly old...privateer ! Enter a gudgeon. Snap, — a gulp, a shiver ; — FRANK (in the grass). Jove, what a day ! Black Care upon the crupper Nods at his post, and slumbers... | |
 | Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...mind | Atra Cura is up with the lackeys behind ' (Locker, Vanity Fair; cf. Thackeray passim) ; Move, what a day, black care upon the crupper | Nods at his post and slumbers in the sun' (Dobson) ; 'Sorge sie steiget mit dir zu Ross, sie steiget zu Schiffe' (Goethe, Vier Jahreszeiten.... | |
 | Horace - Latin language - 1898 - 538 pages
...but mind | Atra Cura is up with the lackeys behind ' (Locker, Vanity Fair; cf. Thackeray passim) ; 'Jove, what a day, black care upon the crupper | Nods at his post and slumbers ¡n the sun' (Dobson) ; 'Sorge sie steiget mit dir zu Ross, sie steiget zu Schiffe' (Goethe, Vier Jahreszeiten.... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 420 pages
...Say, formose puer, Bent in a dream above the " water wan," JACK. Hist ! That 'aa pike. Look — nose against the river Gaunt as a wolf, — the sly old...privateer ! Enter a gudgeon. Snap, — a gulp, a shiver j — Exit the gudgeon. Let us anchor here. FRANK (in the grass). Jove, what a day ! Black Care upon... | |
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Shall we row higher, for the reeds are fewer, There by the pollards, where you see the swan ? JACK. Hist ! That's a pike. Look, — note against the river, Gaunt as a wolf, — the sly old privateer, Enter a gudgeon. Snap, — a gulp, a shiver ; — Exit... 
