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. A General History of Quadrupeds - Page 347by Ralph Beilby - 1807 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, ' 3) so sanded; ' 4) 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, Kach under each.... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 682 pages
...Masters," by Miss Hunter.'] * [" My hounds are bred out of the Spnrtan kind, So flew'd, 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."... | |
| Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1834 - 314 pages
...336 Molossia, a city of Epirus. 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-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| 1834 - 508 pages
...Shakspeare's mention of the dog.] *' My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So fiew'd, 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 iu mouth like bells. Each under each."... | |
| 1835 - 102 pages
...lovers of the canine race. " My hounds were bred out of the Spartan kind, • So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away...pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each : a cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly."... | |
| Games - 1835 - 182 pages
...the " Midsummer Night's Dream," " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep aw.ay the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dewlapped, like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, and matched in mouth like bells." All this is very... | |
| Bryan Waller Procter - 1835 - 564 pages
...behind him (loud, but not swift, for we know them : " Our hounds are bred out of the Irish kind ; * * * and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dewlap'd, like Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed,4 so sanded ; * and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flcw'd," so sanded ;9 eaks them plt-ases those that hear. Il is a pretty youth : — not ; Crook-knrc'd, and dew-lapn'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matcn'd in mouth like bells,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...sweet thunder. 7 — iv. 1. 135 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,p so sanded ;q and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away...but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn. 7— iv. 1. 136 Thy hounds shall make... | |
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