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 dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. The Sportsman - Sida 2771869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 sidor
...So musical a discord, such sweet thunder ? The 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-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matehed in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
| John William Carleton - 1842 - 524 sidor
...These chiens de chasse were of great size : " Bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; ana their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Dewlap'd like Thessalian bulls ; , Matched in mouth like bells." The bells of Moscow, and great Tom... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 sidor
...every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd...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 with horn, In Crete,... | |
| 1907 - 1052 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
| A. J. Hoenselaars - 1994 - 324 sidor
...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...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 with horn, 1n Crete,... | |
| David Lee Miller, Sharon O'Dair, Harold Weber - 1994 - 340 sidor
...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...bulls; Slow in pursuit; but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never hollow'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 sidor
...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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