 With a hole behind that his tail went through. And over the hill, and over the dale, And he rambled over the plain ; And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail As a gentleman switches his cane. The " complement externe  The Rose, Or Affection's Gift - Página 591843Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1818 - 596 páginas
...of the Earth, And see how his stock gets on. And over the hill, and over the dale, He rambled, and over the plain, And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane. And pray how was the Devil drest ' Oh ' he was in his Sunday's best ; His coat was black, and his breeches... | |
 | 1827 - 480 páginas
...the hill, and over the dale, And he rambled over the plain ; And backwards and forwards he switch'd his long tail As a gentleman switches his cane. The " complement externe" of the old gentleman at O. was quite the reverse of all these. In the first pla;e he had no Sunday's best ; the sabbath and... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 páginas
...of the earth, And see hoi* his stock went on. And over the hill, and over the dale, And flourishing over the plain, And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane And pray how was the Devil drest? Oh he was drest in liis Sunday's best ; His coat was red. and his... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 páginas
...the hill, and over the dale, And he rambled over the plain ; And backwards and forwards he switch'd his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane."...Sunday's best: the Sabbath and the working day saw him in precisely the same habiliments, a circumstance which confirmed the towns-people in their opinion... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1843 - 528 páginas
...hill, and over the da]e. And he rambled »ver the njain ; And backwards and forwards he switch'd hii long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane. The "...Sunday's best ; the sabbath and the working day saw him in precisely the same habiliments— a circumstance which confirmed the towns-people in their opinion... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 452 páginas
...dressed ; and walking more like a locomotive than a man. But in England he appeared like a gentleman, " And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane." And he probably wore a handsome coat from Stultz's, and a most knowing hat, &c., &.C., and he behaved... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...be proud of it, except in Porson's Devil's Walk : And over the hill and over the dale He walked, and over the plain : And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail Ля a gentleman switches his cane. But though poets and painters agree as to the devil's peculiar... | |
 | 1888 - 344 páginas
...earth, And see how his stock there goes on ; And over the hill, and over the dale, He rambled, and over the plain — And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane. And pray, now, how was the Devil drest ? Oh, he was in his Sunday best ; His coat it was red, and his... | |
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