 Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears his rider headlong...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 77by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...horse. COWPER : Retirement. The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. DODSLEY. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shout of war, Pricks up his ears, and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the... | |
 | Virgil - 1877 - 528 pages
...bay : Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far 130 The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks...reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. 135 His horny hoofs are jetted black and round; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...horse. COWPER : Retirement. The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. DODSLEY. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shout of war, Pricks up his ears, and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 456 pages
...shouting." Virgil, in his Third Georgic, written many centuries later, again speaks of the war horse :— '' The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promised fight." The war-horses in the frieze of the Parthenon at Athens, now placed in the British Museum as the Elgin... | |
 | Virgil - 1880 - 450 pages
...gray ; For beauty, dappled, or the brightest bay : Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...were his nails, like silver to behold ; His body glittered like the burnished gold. 9. THE WAB-HOBSE. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...fight ; On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined Euffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound. He turns... | |
 | Bouquet - 1883 - 106 pages
...Hippomedon ; Not as in Northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light : On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind : Firm fixt his tread and light, as when on high He walks the impalpable and pathless sky : While round... | |
 | William Bayley - 1883 - 104 pages
...Hippomedon ; Not as in Northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light : On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind : Firm fixt his tread and light, as when on high He walks the impalpable and pathless sky : While round... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - 1885 - 280 pages
...is unmiftakable : " The fiery courfer, when he hears from far The fprightly trumpets and the fhouts of war, Pricks up his ears and trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promifed fight. On his right moulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at fpeed and dances in the wind.... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...fear, But still press on, to do or die ! " ED. PORTER THOMPSON. flery courser, when he hears from far I The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, Pricks...reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind : Eager he stands. — then, starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solidcrouud;... | |
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