 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...meet the bay,— A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Nov. he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers (Elementary) - 1883 - 394 pages
...tower of the church, Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry-chamber overhead. IV. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...a heavy stride, On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.1 Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed on the landscape far and near, Then impetuous stamped... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 396 pages
...tower of the church, Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry-chamber overhead. IV. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...a heavy stride, On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.1 Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed on the landscape far and near, Then impetuous stamped... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 548 pages
...widens to meet the bay,A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked PauJ Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 626 pages
...meet the bay, — A 3ine of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On tne opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Legends - 1884 - 514 pages
...moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...saddle-girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral... | |
 | New England - 1902 - 854 pages
...to the conclusion that Mr. Longfellow drew liberally from his imagination, when he wrote the lines : "Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...saddle-girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Children - 1884 - 500 pages
...moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now ga/.ed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul llevere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape, far and near, Then, impetuous,... | |
 | Recitations - 1885 - 180 pages
...to meet the bay, A line of black, that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats : Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride. Booted and...Revere : Now he patted his horse's side ; Now gazed on the landscape far and near Then impetuous stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle... | |
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For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river widens to meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred,... 
