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" 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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 83
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from ...

Virgil - 1871 - 376 pages
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Shakespeare, 1 K. Henry IV. , iv. 1. With bronze, and bristling with a horsehair plume. Thus on the...
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 22

Tresham Gilbey - 1872 - 474 pages
...bounds of our subject; but the enthusiastic spirit which pervades it justifies its introduction : ' I saw young Harry,—with his beaver on, His cuisses...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.' Mr. Torrens, already mentioned, is rather hard upon the prince here, and hints that he had been taking...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thigbs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather' d Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Act iv. Sc. 1. The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. Act iv. Sc. 2. A mad fellow met me on...
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The works of William Shakspeare, life, glossary &c. repr. from the ..., Part 73

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 1146 pages
...gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as \ oung bulls, I saw young Harry, with ye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage...and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch Hoi. No more, no more; worse than the sun in March, [come ; This praise doth nourish agues. Let them...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...the world aside, And bid it pass. ibid. King Henry IV.. Part I., continued.] I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Act\\. Sc. I. The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. Act iv. Sc. 2. A mad fellow met me on the...
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Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. • Lecture on Dramatic Art and Literature, by AW Schlegel (ed. 1846.) p. 369. It is because Shakspere...
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Comedy (continued). Historical drama

Denton Jaques Snider - 1877 - 474 pages
...is a new man ; with new endowments, he leaps into his saddle like a winged warrior from the clouds: "I saw young Harry—with his beaver on, His cuisses...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Such is the first movement of the play. The great rebellion has unfolded into reality; the King on...
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System of Shakespeare's Dramas, Volumes 1-2

Denton Jaques Snider - 1877 - 1288 pages
...endowments, he leaps into his saddle like a winged warrior from the clouds : "I saw young Harry — with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...angel dropp'd down from the clouds To turn and wind a flery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Such is the first movement of the play....
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The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style, Elucidating the ...

Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...young bulls. I saw young Harry — with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arrrt'd — Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. — Ibid., iv. i. In the above glowing passage, so richly full of illustration are the sentences —...
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Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

Edward Dowden - 1879 - 464 pages
...and joy : — I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Bise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. * Lecture on Dramatic Art and Literature, by AW Schlegel (ed. 1846), p. 369. It is because Shakspere...
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