 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-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each....  Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the Spectator - Page 64by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. HOUNDS. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,* so sanded; and their heads are hung With...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. * Sound. 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-kneeid, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,... | |
 | Gerald Griffin - 1827 - 394 pages
...fatal sagacity, which he could collect from its appearance, " so flewed, so sanded," its head, " • hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew, Crook-kneed, and dewlapp'd like Thessalian bulls," its sullen, blood-shot eye, and lumpish mouth, all rushed together upon his recollection, and utterly... | |
 | 1827 - 618 pages
...huntsman appears to say — " My .boiHuls are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sauded ; 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.... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1828 - 384 pages
...never heard So 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...dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, butmatch'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...never heard So 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...the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessaliau bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable... | |
 | 1828 - 386 pages
...never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of Ihe 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-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, butmatch'd in mouth like bells,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...Shakspeare in the following lines : — " My Hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, BO sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep...but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each." THE SPANIEL I HAS received from nature a very keen smell, good understanding, and uncommon docility.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1829 - 590 pages
...lines : — " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads arc hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd...dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each." .--.5s And Somervile, the poet of the Chase, thus beautifully... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,1 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.... | |
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