I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And... Dictionary of Quotations (English) - Seite 117von Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 510 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 Seiten
...riding ; the art of managing a horse. He vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Shaktpeare. His majesty, to shew his horsemanship, slaughtered two or three of his subjects. Adtlisun.... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 Seiten
...riding ; the an of managing a horse. He vaulted with such ease into bis seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horirmaruhtp. Shakrpeart. His majesty, to shew bis HorKmaruhip, slaughtered two or three of his subjects.... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 Seiten
...uncommon genius. Describing Prince Henry : I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on bis thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like...vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.... | |
| Aristophanes, John Wood Warter - 1830 - 268 Seiten
...airoSiSwKaaiv avrif rbv Xapov, rov 5 For the wings of Mercury and Love I give the lines of Shakspeare : " I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, His cuisses...thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground like feat her'd Meriury." Henry iv. Part i. Act iii. as he is, and bears wings, and other Gods also very... | |
| 1830 - 344 Seiten
...the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vault up with such ease into his seat, As if an augel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. The effects of chivalry on composition, as well as on manners, have survived the fall of the institutions,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 Seiten
...beaver on, His cuissesd on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground like feather'd Murcury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, a nimble-footed mad-cap prince of Wales, &c.j Stowe says of the prince, " He was passing swift in (running,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 Seiten
...Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulb. I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, Hiscuis*es>° on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,— Rise from the ground...Pegasus, And witch" the world with noble horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 Seiten
...bulb. I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, His cuisses '" on his thighs, gallant 'y nrm'd,— Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...Pegasus, And witch" the world with noble horsemanship. ili'< No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This praise dolh nourish agues. Let them come... | |
| G. Hamilton - 1831 - 310 Seiten
...: " I saw young Harry, — with bis beaver on, His cuisses ou his thighs, gallantly arm'd,— rRise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasns, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. " SHAKSPEARE'S first part of King Henry IV. t... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 Seiten
...ACT HI. Sc. 1. Describing Prince Henry : I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on bis thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like...vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.... | |
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