 At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-adozen donkeys. What a change! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one side, the cork slippers on the other. Puffing, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen...  The Quarterly Review - Page 174edited by - 1927Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1834 - 40 pages
...steeds. At last, all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-a-dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust. Behold the late Prime Minister and the Reform Ministry ! The spirited and snowwhite steeds have gradually... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1854 - 662 pages
...steeds. At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-a-dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...to the audience, and another rolls in the saw-dust. Behold the late Prime Minister and the Reform Ministry ! The spirited and snow-white steeds have gradually... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1854 - 660 pages
...steeds. At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-a-dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...to the audience, and another rolls in the saw-dust. Behold the late Prime Minister and the Reform Ministry! The spirited and snow-white steeds hare gradually... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1868 - 140 pages
...the horses are knocked no, and now there are half a dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero of the amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one...to the audience . and another rolls in the sawdust. Behold the late Prime Minister of the Reform Ministry ! The spirited and new white steeds have actually... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...kind. " At last, all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half a dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...Puffing, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen brut3, thwacks another, cuffs a third, and curses a fourth, while one brays to the audience, and another... | |
 | 1869 - 794 pages
...kind. " At last, all the horses arc knocked up, and now there are half a dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...thrown on one side, the cork slippers on the other. Pufling, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen brute, thwacks another, cuffs a third, and curses... | |
 | 1869 - 890 pages
...horses are knocked up, and now there are half n dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in tho amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one side, the cork slippers on the other. Pufling, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen brutj, thwacks another, cuffs a third, and curses... | |
 | 1869 - 1188 pages
...kind. "At last, all th« horses arc knocked up, and now there are half a dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one side, tho cork slippers on the other. Puffing, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen bruts, thwacks... | |
 | 1874 - 864 pages
...steeds. At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-a-dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...perspiring, he pokes one sullen brute, thwacks another, cufls a third, and curses a fourth, whilo one brays to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust.... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 488 pages
...steeds. At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half a dozen donkeys. What a change ! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled...to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust. Behold the late Prime Minister and the Reform Ministry ! The spirited and snow-white steeds have gradually... | |
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