 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
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 דפים
...rapid step seeks " Hector of the glancing helm ;" whereas Virgil treats of tho nature of the horse : " The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, Pricks up his cars, and trembling with delight Shifts pace and paws, and hopes the promised fight. On his right shoulder... | |
 | 1841 - 404 דפים
...war-horse, which is translated with so much spirit by Dry den, seemed in part to be realized here. " The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...Pricks up his ears, and trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws, and hopes the promia'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles... | |
 | 1841 - 346 דפים
...seemed in part to be realized here. "The fiery couraer, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpeta, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears, and trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fighu On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles... | |
 | E. Harmon - 1846 - 122 דפים
...gray ; For beauty, dappled, or the brightest bay : Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Prieks up his ears; and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and pawSj and hopes the promis'd fight.... | |
 | 1847 - 338 דפים
...; and let me tell you, my children, that this will fill the measure of a parent's joy." The Horse, THE fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promised right: On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 דפים
...the manger. Virgil, in his beautiful description of this noble animal, seems to have imitated Job : " 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... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 דפים
...pamper' d blood : So feeds the mother bird her craving young With little morsels, and delays them long. THE fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...promised fight ; On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 דפים
...woods abound; And youth, of labour patient, plough the ground, Inur'd to hardship, and to homely fare. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight, Shifts place, and paws; and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 דפים
...T For beauty, dappled, or the brightest bay : > Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. J 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 דפים
...divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. DRYDEN. THE WAR-HORSE. THE fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, ami dances in the wind. Eager he stands — then, starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes... | |
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