 d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look what a horse should have he did not lack,...  Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art - Seite 130herausgegeben von - 1850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare - 1924 - 904 Seiten
...the life, In limning out a well proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this...common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. Round-hooPd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril... | |
 | Dodgson Hamilton Madden - 1924 - 300 Seiten
...of the horse of Adonis might serve as a rendering into English poetry of the Latin prose of Albert: So did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. Round-hoofed, short- jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril... | |
 | 1924 - 414 Seiten
...of horses, Verg. Oeorg. iii. 79, quoted on p. 98, and Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis: " Roundhoofed, shortjointed, fetlocks shag and long, /broad breast, full eyes, small head and nostrils wide; .... 4 Cf. Loxus op. Anon. Fast. ii. 137. 9 ff. Plato's description is physiognomical... | |
 | Clara Longworth comtesse de Chambrun - 1927 - 392 Seiten
...much of fairest wants And who hath all, her beauty perfect vaunts. Florio, SECOND FKUITS, 1591 [121] So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. Round hoofed, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril... | |
 | 1905 - 1006 Seiten
...Europe and Asia, and this is the animal to which Shakspere's lines in " Venus and Adonis " apply : So did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril... | |
 | 1910 - 700 Seiten
...he may be called on to do. 49 A FIRST LESSON ON THE HORSE MW HARPER " Round-hoofed, short- jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small...and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide ; Look, what a horse should... | |
 | 1914 - 708 Seiten
...familiar with the horse but lackins the special adaptation. Round-hoofed, short-joinltd fetlocks shai and long. Broad breast, full eyes, small head and nostril wide. High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide; Loo':, what a horse should... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 Seiten
...2, 99. Bone, 1) the solid part of the body: tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and b. Ven. 56. so did this horse excel a common one, in shape, in courage, colour, pace and b. 294. no hand of blood and b. R2 III, 3, 79. nerve and b. of Greece, Troil. 1, 3, 55. vigour ofb.... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 Seiten
...the life In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed: So did this...one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 324 Seiten
...well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceedSo did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone, (289-94; my italics) The purpose of such descriptions is to bring out the life of things in such a... | |
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