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 83by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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 —... | |
| 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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