 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-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each....  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1771889Full view - About this book
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1994 - 324 pages
...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-knee'd, and...bells. Each under each; a cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, 1n Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. Judge when you hear. (4.1.118-26)... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flcw'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd and...Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, But, soft, what nymphs are these? Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. (The HORNS sound.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapt like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matcht him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear h holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly: Judge when you hear. — But,... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...boastfully that his SpartanBarbara Freedman bred hounds bark according to a musical scale; they are "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, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. / Judge when you hear"... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...away the morning dew, Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to nor cheered with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. (lines 118-25) This dog-fancying... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...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-knee'd and...dewlapp'd like Thessalian bulls; / Slow in pursuit, but match 'd in mouth like bells, / Each under each: a cry more runable / Was never bolla 'd to, nor cheer'd... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; 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, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly: Judge when you hear. But,... | |
 | Howard B. White - History - 1970 - 174 pages
...Spartan kind..., Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable Was never hallowed to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.... (IV, i, 133, 137-40) Theseus never proves his boast. He no longer cares, apparently, to prove his boast.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapt like Thessalian bulls Slow in pursuit, but matent s sin with baptism. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Then hear me, graciou holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly: Judge when you hear. — But,... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...cry. The fast and the fierce are replaced by the slow and the musical: 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, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. Hippolyta acclaimed the Spartan... | |
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