 My 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 dewlapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each....  Choice Literature - Page 2701880Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1853 - 618 pages
...in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable Was never hollow'd to nor cheered with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly." " Judge when you hear." It is evident that the man who wrote this was a judge of dogs, was an out-of-door... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Dogs - 1856 - 494 pages
...in pursuit, bnt matched in mouth like bells, Each under each, a cry more tunable Wag never hallo'ed to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly." It is not worth the while to inquire whether the Laconian and Thessalian hounds, so often alluded to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...Thcssalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable Was never holla'd to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear. — But, soft ; what nymphs are these ? Eye. My lord, this is my daughter here... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Dogs - 1857 - 506 pages
...in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each, a ery more tunable Was never hallo'ed to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly." It is not worth the while to inquire whether the Laoonian and Thessalian hounds, so often alluded to... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Rare books - 1860 - 348 pages
...in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tunable Was never hallo'd to, nor cheered with horn. In Crete, In Sparta, nor in Thessaly. Arrian, Pliny, Oppian, .Elian, and a host of othei writers of the Empire, descant on the pi'aises of... | |
 | J. M. Jephson - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 286 pages
...dew-lapped like Theiralian bulls ; Slow in purfuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each. Aery more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Theflbly : Judge, when you hear." It is true, thefe crooked-kneed, dew-lapped, longeared, " tow-rowing... | |
 | Frank Forester - Dogs - 1864 - 512 pages
...in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each nnder each, a cry more tunable Was never hallo'ed to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly." It is not worth the while to inquire whether the Laconian and Thessalian hounds, so often alluded to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulb; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,...cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear. — But, soft; what nymphi are these? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here... | |
 | Theophrastus - Character sketches - 1870 - 380 pages
...the Midsummer Nighfs Dream IV. I, ' My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind.. .A cry more tunable Was never holla'd to nor cheered with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.' 1 1 Cyzieus | in Mysia on the Propontis ; once a dependency of Athens'. The treaty of Antalcidas (387... | |
 | Frederick Meyrick - English language - 1873 - 178 pages
...limbs arc bowed but net with toil, But rusted with a vile repose. A cry more tuneable Was never hollaed to nor cheered with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. RULE LXXIL Explain the meaning of protasis and apodosis, and show how Rule LXXIL is illustrated in... | |
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