 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
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1828 - 384 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...dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, butmatch'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd... | |
 | English drama - 1828 - 386 pages
...the morning dew ; Crook -knee'd and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, butmatch'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.—... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...Hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, BO sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and...but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each." THE SPANIEL I HAS received from nature a very keen smell, good understanding, and uncommon docility.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829
...; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd...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. —... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Dogs - 1829 - 590 pages
...hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads arc hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and...dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each." .--.5s And Somervile, the poet of the Chase, thus beautifully... | |
 | Richard Warner - Authors - 1830 - 420 pages
...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...but match'd in mouth like bells, " Each under each." Remarkable, however, as the kennel department of Mr. Gilbert's establishment might be, the interior... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...;h and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap 'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd...bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd too, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear. —... | |
 | Virgil - 1830 - 348 pages
...sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under eaeh. Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. 343 The cedar of the Greek and Roman writers is not the... | |
 | Arrian - Coursing - 1831 - 332 pages
...sanded, and their heads are hnng With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit; but match'd...bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. The vigorous and fleet Leverarius... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ¡ Slow in pursuit, but match'd...bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor eheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor inThessaly: Judge, when you hear. — But,... | |
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