 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 350 sivua
...all in arms, All plumed like estridges, that with the wind Battle like eagles having lately bathed ; Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full...from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.' These passages speak freely enough for themselves ; and if the reader will imagine their characteristics... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 sivua
...game of Prison-base or Prison-bars. 104 QUOTATIONS ON THE HORSE. Rise from the ground like featherM Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.' " He has also made a love of horses and judgment in their excellent points, a characteristic accomplishment... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1869 - 538 sivua
...his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Wandering through the galleries of Europe, the writer has more than once been startled at recognizing... | |
 | Henry Green - 1870 - 644 sivua
...The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales" (i Henry IV., act iv. sc. 1,1. 104, vol. iv. p. 318),— " I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship." The railer Thersites (Troilus and Cressida, act ii. sc, 3, 1. 9, vol. vi. p. 168) thus mentions our... | |
 | Henry Green - 1870 - 654 sivua
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like featherM Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship." The railer Thersites (Troilus and Cressida, act ii. sc. 3, 1. 9, vol. vi. p. 168) thus mentions our... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1870 - 582 sivua
...beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,— • •Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat...and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with uoble horsemanship." Wandering through the galleries of Europe, the writer has more than once been... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 sivua
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Shakespeare, 1 K. Henry IV. , iv. 1. With bronze, and bristling with a horsehair plume. Thus on the... | |
 | Tresham Gilbey - 1872 - 474 sivua
...the enthusiastic spirit which pervades it justifies its introduction : ' I saw young Harry,—with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.' Mr. Torrens, already mentioned, is rather hard upon the prince here, and hints that he had been taking... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1872 - 538 sivua
...cuisses8 on his thighs, gallantly arui'd, — Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And waited with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Hotspwr. No more, no more; worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come;... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 sivua
...the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,...Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, His praise doth nourish agues. Let them come ; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the... | |
| |
As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,... 
