 Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears his rider headlong...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - עמוד 77מאת John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | ADAM CLARKE, LL.D., F.A.S. - 1854 - 1004 דפים
...and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and, trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws,and hopes the promised fight. On his right shoulder his...reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chin is double : starting with a bound, He turns the turf,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 354 דפים
...whereas Virgil professes to treat of the nature of the horse. It is thus admirably translated : — The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round: His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 דפים
...— or the brightest bay ; Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. TUB WAR-HORSE DESCRIBED. ir grassy food, horny hoofs are jetty black, and round ; His chine is double ; starting, with a bound He turns the... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 דפים
...the flow'ry sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God. THE WAR-HORbE. THE fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground ;... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 דפים
...the brightest bay ; Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. тик WAR-ПОИЯК DESCRIBED. N cars ; and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws; and hopes the promised fight. On his right... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 דפים
...snorts, he bears his head on high, Before his ample chest the frothy waters fly." Homer, by POPE. " The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...up his ears ; and, trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws ; and hopes the promised fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, RufHes... | |
 | 1857 - 224 דפים
...snorts, he bears his head on high, Before his ample chest the frothy waters fly." Homer, by POPE. " The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...up his ears ; and, trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws ; and hopes the promised fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 דפים
...gray ; For heauty, dappled, or the hrightest hay : Faint white and dun will scaree the rearing pay. The fiery courser when he hears from far The sprightly...trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and, tremhling with delight. Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promisV fight. On his right shoulder... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 דפים
...Rome's wail above her only son, Her patriot — and her latest one. LE LANDON. XL VI THE WAR-HORSE. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...reclined Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound, He spurns the turf, and shakes the solid ground.... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 דפים
...Stir the Vikings' blood ; Bracing brain and sinew ; Blow, thou wind of God ! THE WAR HORSE.— Dryden. THE fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...reclined Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound, He spurns the turf, and shakes the solid ground.... | |
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