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... Shakspere's works [from the text of N. Delius]. - Page 156by William Shakespeare - 1882Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 154 pages
...bid it pass ? Ver. All furnish'd, all in arms* All pliim'd like estridges, that 'with the wind Bated, like eagles having lately bath'd : Glittering in golden...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.... | |
| Francis William Blagdon - 1803 - 534 pages
...displayed by BONAPARTE in mounting his horse, that, to borrow the words of Shakspeare, he seemed to " Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, " And...from the clouds " To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, f( And witch the world with noble horsemanship.'' Off he went at a hand canter, preceded 'by his s^des-de-camp,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, His cuisses5 on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the...the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch8 the world with noble horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, His cuisses5 on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the...the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch5 the world with noble horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry,— with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs,4 gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground like feather'd...dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,5 And witch the world7 with noble horsemanship. . Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun... | |
| William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 330 pages
...end of a feast, and affords a striking contrast to the spirited lines of our bard: I saw the soldier, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...vaulted with such ease into his seat; As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind the fiery Pegasus, And 'witch the world with noble horsemanship.... | |
| William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 356 pages
...striking contrast to the spirited lines of our Mi I saw the soldier, with his beaver on, His causes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground,...vaulted with such ease into his seat ; As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind the fiery Pegasus, And 'witch the world with noble horsemanship.... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 pages
...bid it pass ? Ver. All furnish'd, all in arms. All plum'd like estridges, that with the wind Bated, like eagles having lately bath'd : Glittering in golden...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.... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 398 pages
...like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer? \Vanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls, I saw young...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.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...curtain,] To draw a curtain had anciently the same meaning as to undraw one has at present. • Bated like eagles having lately bath'd ; * Glittering in...the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch6 the world with noble horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This... | |
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