 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-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.  The Twentieth Century - 563. lappuse1880Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 lapas
...NEMESIAH. • The other is a poet who must have been a dog-fancier, one William Shakspearc : — " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind — So flewed, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With tan that fiveep away the morning dew." Even a sportsman may wish to know the meaning of the words "flewed"... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 lapas
...discord, such sweet thunder. 7 — iv. 1. 135 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,f 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, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 lapas
...for the picture which Shakspeorc drew of the dog of the highest iepute in the sixteenth century : — My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed, so sanded ; and their heads arc hung With ears that sweep away with the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd, like Thessaliau... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 lapas
...best described in the words of the poet : -. 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." Our chairman opened the proceedings by stating the object for which we were that day assembled, showing... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 lapas
...shifts, wit waits on fear." Of the hound, the " Bard of Avon" thus speaks : " So flcw'd, 30 sauded : and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, aud dew-lapp'd, like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matcn'd in mouth like bells, Each under... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1852 - 518 lapas
...CHAP. XIX. " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind — So flew'd, so sanded ; and their headu arc hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapped, like Thessulian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells — Each under each. A cry more... | |
 | James White - 1840 - 368 lapas
...of the hare was a passionate diversion, especially if the pack were of a superior description,— " With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed,...Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth-like bells, Each under each ; "— A sport, indeed, which at one time was enjoyed with as much... | |
 | Charles White - 1840 - 354 lapas
...a passionate diverHARE HUNTING. sion, especially if the pack were of a superior description, — " With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed,...Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth-like bells, Each under each ; " — A sport, indeed, which at one time was enjoyed with as much... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 lapas
...region near Seems all one mutual ery ! Who ever heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder ? The hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind : So flewed,...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and detr-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | John Mills - 1841 - 322 lapas
...Trimbush." CHAPTER II. THE SQUIRE AND HIS FAMILY. " 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-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd, like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
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