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O gran contrasto in giovenil pensiero, / Desir di laude, ed impeto d'amore 1 / Ariosto: c. 25. / How great a strife in youthful minds can raise / Impulse of love, and keen desire of praise.
Lord Curryfin, amongst his multifarious acquirements, had taken lessons from the great horse-tamer, and thought himself as well qualified as his master to subdue any animal of the species, however vicious. It was therefore with great pleasure he heard that there was a singularly refractory specimen in Mr. Gryll's stables.