 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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3491872Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds arc bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,9 so sanded ; * and their heads are hung With ears that...dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor checr'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartw kind, So flew'dj, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; * Forepart. t Sound. t The flews are the large chaps of a hound. DR1LAM. Crook-knee' df and dew-lap'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,7 so sanded ; 8 and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away...dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. \ cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 pages
...Midsummer Night's Dream" clearly explains this. " 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." § A deep toned hollow cry, is considered an almost certain indication of a good hound ; the sweetness... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. '/'.'".. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, Soflew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapp'd, likeThessalian bulb, [bells, Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like Each under each... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 412 pages
...Midsummer Night's Dream" clearly explains this. " 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." § A deep toned hollow cry, is considered an almost certain indication of a good hound ; the sweetness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, 7 so sanded ;" and their heads are hung With ears that...dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bull*; Slow in pursuit, but match d in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...but compare it with a speech in the Midsummer Night's Dream where Theseus describes his hounds— " And their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew"— and he will perceive at once what we mean by the difference between Shakespear's own poetry, and that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pages
...musical a discord, such sweet thunder. Theseus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew '(I, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that...Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouthlike bells. Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 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...dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd... | |
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