My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. The Spectator ... - Page 1641803Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...sweet thunder. 7 — iv. 1. 135 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,p so sanded ;q and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dew-lap'd, like Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear." Even Titian never made... | |
| 1922 - 378 pages
...Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Theseus : " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind. So flewed, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; , Crook kneed, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like... | |
| 1907 - 1052 pages
...THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED STAG 651 I saw the pack laid on, bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew, Crook-kneed, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls. Instantly their full-mouthed baying came singing to me on the wind... | |
| 1880 - 1068 pages
...sweet thunder. To which Theseus answers : — My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind ; So flewed, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| Peter Brook - 1974 - 300 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. THESEUS My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed; and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| John Weld - 1975 - 266 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; 200 Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like... | |
| David Lee Miller, Sharon O'Dair, Harold Weber - 1994 - 340 pages
...aggressively phallic description of his own animals: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit; but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| A. J. Hoenselaars - 1994 - 324 pages
...of oneupmanship that characterizes his reply: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind. So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dewlapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells. Each under each;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. THESEUS My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; no Crook-kneed; and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,... | |
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