 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
 | Hiram A. Cutting - 1886 - 416 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, Humes at speed, and dances in the wind.... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 624 pages
...color 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 Kufflos at speed, mid dances in the wind.... | |
 | 1894 - 764 pages
...of speed — (There was Celtic blood in the pair).' (Lindsay Gordon, ' Legend of the Cottiswnld.') ' The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...reclined, Ruffles at speed and dances in the wind. Eager he stands — then starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground ; Fire... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - 1896 - 280 pages
...is unmiftakable : " The fiery courfer, when he hears from far The fprightly trumpets and the fliouts 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.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...horse. Cow PER : 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 - 1898 - 454 pages
...Virgilio también habla del caballo de guerra, en su tercera Geórgica, escrita muchos siglos después : The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, Pricks up kis ears, and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, und hopes the promised fight*. El caballo... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1900 - 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...color * For beauty, dappled, or the brightest I bay: Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, is z Pricks up his ears; and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and pawl, and hopes the promis'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, 131 promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane, reclin'd, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the... | |
 | John Keble - 1912 - 444 pages
...sings the praises of a noble horse seem not inapplicable to the tone and disposition of the poem : The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight.1 For instance, Ulysses addresses Eurymachus at the assembly of the enraged suitors... | |
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