 | 1839 - 870 páginas
...for those who never, with " a southerly wind and a cloudy sky" as the song has it, experienced the delight ' ' To back the flying steed that challenges The wind for speed I — seems native more of •or Than earth 1 whose burden only lends him fire! Those soul in his task... | |
 | 1856 - 520 páginas
...done, rider, too ! Jumped like a hunter, and sat like a workman ! As neighbour Constance says— " What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges...soul in his task, turns labour into sport ; Who makes yonr pastime his-! I sit him, now." And if she sat him as neatly as our friend in the picture, no wonder... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1837 - 130 páginas
...heartier glee than I do. Churl were he WILDRAKE. That would gainsay you, madam ! CONSTANCE—cowtesying. What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges...takes away my breath !—He makes me reel! I touch not earth—I see not—hear not—All Is ecstacy of motion ! You are used, I see, to the chase. WILDRAKE.... | |
 | 1837 - 392 páginas
...of Wildrake, on his sudden connoisseurship, and her animated description of the delights of backing the flying steed, " That challenges The wind for speed...whose burden only lends him fire ! "Whose soul in hie task turns labor into sport — Who makes your pastime his !" — were excellent, and elicited... | |
 | 1837 - 652 páginas
...Wildrahe. Churl were he That would gainsay you, madam I " Constance. Worthy sir, Const, (courtesying) What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed I—seems native more of air Than earth !—whose burden only lends him fire!— Whose soul, in his... | |
 | Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - 396 páginas
...of the old Oakley, he has given proof that he is not altogether past active service. CHAPTER VI. " What delight To back the flying steed — that challenges...sit him now He takes away my breath ! He makes me feel I touch not earth — I see not, hear not, all Is ecstasy of motion." LOVE CHASE. Riding to Hunt... | |
 | Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - 386 páginas
...of the old Oakley, he has given proof that he is not altogether1 past active service. CHAPTER VI. " What delight To back the flying steed — that challenges...sit him now He takes away my breath ! He makes me feel I touch not earth — I see not, hear not, all Is ecstasy of motion." LOVE CHASE. Riding to Hunt... | |
 | William Youatt - 1839 - 238 páginas
...the lion with the title of " the king of the beasts," reason would have bestowed it upon the horse. What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges...soul, in his task, turns labour into sport ! Who makes our pastime his* ! We were pleased to find in a book, some parts of which we read with unmingled detestation... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 520 páginas
...Constance says—- " What delight To back tho flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed ! — seoms native more of air Than earth ! whose burden only...sport ; Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him now." And if she sat him as neatly as our friend in the picture, no wonder Master Wildrako knocked under.... | |
 | 1839 - 880 páginas
...for those who never, with " a southerly .wind and a cloudy sky" as the song has it, experienced the delight " To back the flying steed that challenges...air Than earth ! whose burden only lends him fire! Whoso • mi! in his task turns labour into sport,— Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him now !... | |
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What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed ! — seems native more of air Than earth ! — whose burden only lends him fire ! — Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport ! Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him... 
