 | John Charles Curtis - 1869 - 150 páginas
...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...strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening the cat being in the room had the hardihood to pat Bess upon the cheek, an indignity which... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1869 - 168 páginas
...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...strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening, the cat, being in the room, had the boldness to pat Bess upon the cheek, an insult which... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 páginas
...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...always admitted them into the parlour after supper, where the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand... | |
 | 1872 - 136 páginas
...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...strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening a cat being in the room was so bold as to pat Bess upon the cheek. He showed his displeasure... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 168 páginas
...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...strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening a cat being in the room was so bold as to pat Bess upon the cheek. He showed his displeasure... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 224 páginas
...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...strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest. One evening the cat, being in the room, had the hardiness to pat Bess upon the cheek, an indignity... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 páginas
...(Bourrienne, Memoires: iii. p. 70). In his ' Account of the Treatment of his Hares,' he says, ' After supper they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.' (S. iv. 424). Cp. Tirocinium 1. 542. II. 163-202. These strictures on what was then the fashionable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 páginas
...(Bourrienne, M£moires : iii. p. 70). In his ' Account of the Treatment of his Hares,' he says, ' After supper they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.' (S. ir. 424). Cp. Tirocinium 1. 542. II. 163-202. These strictures on what was then the fashionable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 346 páginas
...(Bourrienne, Memoires : iii. p. 70). In his ' Account of the Treatment of his Hares,' he says, ' After supper they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.' (S. iv. 424). Cp. Tirocinium 1. 542. II. 163-202. These strictures on what was then the fashionable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1878 - 290 páginas
...humour and drollery. Puss was med by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the...admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carper affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols,... | |
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Bess, who died soon after he was full grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed... 
