 Round-hoofd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did...  The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new ... - Page 382by William Shakespeare - 1843Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 756 pages
...knowing in a horse's good points as a Newmarket jockey's might be : — Round hoof'd, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long. Broad breast, full eye, small...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. That exquisite passage on the honey-bees, likening the order observed in their hive and work to that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short cars, straight legs, and passing strong, Thick mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look,...starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid the wind a base" he now prepares, And wher he run or fly they know not whether ; For through his mane and tail... | |
 | 1873 - 758 pages
...knowing in a horse's good points as a Newmarket jockey's might be : — Round hoof'd, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...legs, and passing strong ; Thin mane, thick tail, bioad buttock, tender hide ; Look what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 646 pages
...excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. SO. Round-hoof 'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 5iSometime he scuds far off, and there he stares ; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather; To bid... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...stanzas describes the stallion ; all his points are enumerated : — Round-hoof il, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide. This passage of poetry has been admired ; but is it poetry or a paragraph from an advertisement of... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Sometimes he scuds far off, and there he stares ; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather : To bid... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin main, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what...starts at stirring of a feather : To bid the wind a base he now prepares, And whe'r he run, or fly, they know not whether ; For through his mane and tail... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...; So did his horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, the fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast,...starts at stirring of a feather : To bid the wind a base 2 he now prepares, And whe'r he run, or fly, they know not whether ; For through his mane and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...horse excell a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof 'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid the wind a base13 he now prepares, " To bid the wind a base] ie to challenge the wind to contend with him in speed... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Eound-hooPd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Sometimes he scuds far off, and there he stares ; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid... | |
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