 | Charles Wainwright March - History - 1850 - 322 pages
...gallantly armed, 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 nohle horsemanship. " Age at this time had not withered, nor custom... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 872 pages
...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." In regard to matters of state policy, Governor... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1957 - 214 pages
...gallantly artn'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. (1v. i) A reader used to the complexities of... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered 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. Who shall say that Shakespeare does not share... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered 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. (4.1.104-10) The speech, which gains from being... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 200 pages
...Prince Henry rose 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. Blake literalizes Sir Richard's figure for Henry's... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered 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. (IV.i.gS- 1 10) Tournament and masque were, in... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...Retch's outlines will understand our allusion. [LSM] For "fiery Pegasus," see 1 Henry IV 4. i. 108—io: "As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds / To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, / And witch the world with noble horsemanship;" Matthew Prior, "Carmen Seculare, for the Year... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered 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. (4.1.98-110) The audience's sense that Vernon... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1999 - 308 pages
...gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered 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. (4.1.98-110, my emphasis) The audience's sense... | |
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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. 
