My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. the de coverley papers from the spectator - Seite 47von SAMUEL THRBER - 1898Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 Seiten
...Midsummer Night's Dream" clearly explains this. " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew." § A deep toned hollow cry, is considered an almost certain indication of a good hound ; the sweetness... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. '/'.'".. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, Soflew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapp'd, likeThessalian bulb, [bells, Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like Each under each... | |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 412 Seiten
...Midsummer Night's Dream" clearly explains this. " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew." § A deep toned hollow cry, is considered an almost certain indication of a good hound ; the sweetness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 Seiten
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, 7 so sanded ;" and their heads are hung With ears that...dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bull*; Slow in pursuit, but match d in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 Seiten
...but compare it with a speech in the Midsummer Night's Dream where Theseus describes his hounds— " And their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew"— and he will perceive at once what we mean by the difference between Shakespear's own poetry, and that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 Seiten
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. "The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd !, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that...match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, .* In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge,... | |
| 1818 - 564 Seiten
...SIIEIIXER ! and open [upon] the piano forte. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that...morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bull* — Slow in pursuit, but matctid in mouth tike belli Each under each. Piano Forte Sonata for... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 Seiten
...the Midsummer Night's Dream : My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flu'd*, so sanded t ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away...Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouths like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that...the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalien bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 Seiten
...sanded ; and their heads are hung * Forepart. t Sound. J The flews are the large chaps of a hound. With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd,...match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'dwith horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge,... | |
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