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... Horse in Shakespeare . Every lover of the horse who is a student of Shakespeare must have been struck by the number and appropriateness of his references to horses and to horsemanship ; and I found that some pas- sages which once seemed ...
... Horse in Shakespeare . Every lover of the horse who is a student of Shakespeare must have been struck by the number and appropriateness of his references to horses and to horsemanship ; and I found that some pas- sages which once seemed ...
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... horses . Shakespeare's love of the country needs no illustration from the gossip of Stratford . It is a simple matter ... horse of Adonis . The flowers of Warwickshire blossom in every clime , and we encounter in the most unlikely places ...
... horses . Shakespeare's love of the country needs no illustration from the gossip of Stratford . It is a simple matter ... horse of Adonis . The flowers of Warwickshire blossom in every clime , and we encounter in the most unlikely places ...
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... horse will follow where the game Makes way , and run like swallows o'er the plain . Titus Andronicus . MASTER SHALLOW and his friends from their vantage ground in the park , like Theseus and Hippolyta on the mountain top , could with ...
... horse will follow where the game Makes way , and run like swallows o'er the plain . Titus Andronicus . MASTER SHALLOW and his friends from their vantage ground in the park , like Theseus and Hippolyta on the mountain top , could with ...
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... horse or horse of service of the High Almain breed , borrowed for the occasion from his friend Petre , by his management of which within the pale he had hoped to commend himself to the eyes of Mistress Anne , and like Henry the Fifth ...
... horse or horse of service of the High Almain breed , borrowed for the occasion from his friend Petre , by his management of which within the pale he had hoped to commend himself to the eyes of Mistress Anne , and like Henry the Fifth ...
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... horse must be carefully nursed , if he would see the finish of this glo- rious chase . Steep is the ascent from the western valley to the upper ranges of the wolds . Now must be practised the wholesome self - restraint which Norfolk ...
... horse must be carefully nursed , if he would see the finish of this glo- rious chase . Steep is the ascent from the western valley to the upper ranges of the wolds . Now must be practised the wholesome self - restraint which Norfolk ...
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Page 265 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood, If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 166 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 19 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 60 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 240 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 292 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 181 - For there his smell with others being mingled, The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt, Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out ; Then do they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies.
Page 71 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 127 - What maids lack from head to heel : • Come, buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy ; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come, buy, Sac.
Page 258 - 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 not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.