 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 ... - Page 77by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...difficult to conceive, except he omitted this quality of the horse altogether. The description follows: — 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 promised figlit; On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined Ruffles... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pages
...sprightly trumpets, 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...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 pages
...sprightly trumpets, 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Pownall (of Epsom, Eng.) - 1825 - 240 pages
...ha, ha; and he sinelleth the battle " afar off, the thunder of the captains and the *' shouting." " The fiery courser, when he hears from far" " The sprightly...hopes the promised fight. " On his right shoulder bis thick mane reclined, " Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind ; * Job xxxix. 20. " His horny... | |
 | Virgil - 1825 - 294 pages
...: > Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. > The fiery courser when he hears from far 130 The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war. Pricks up his ears . and, trembling with delight, Shirts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd,... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...simile; 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...Pricks up his ears, and trembling with delight, Shifts pace, and paws ; and hopes the promis'd fight* On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd Ruffles... | |
 | Virgil - 1828 - 550 pages
...bay : Faint white and dun will scarce the reariug pay The fiery courser, when he bears from far 1 30 The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and trembles with delight, Shifts place,and paws.and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...on the prey. Drydm. Be civil to the wretch imploring, And lay your paw upon him without roaring. Id. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promised fight. Id. If lions had been brought up to painting, where you have one lion under the feet of a man, you... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...smoothed the ruffled seas, and cleared the skies. Dryden. The rising winds a ruffling gale afford. Id. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Id. How many... | |
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