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" Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 187
by Edmund Burke - 1815
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry with his beaver on Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury ; And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped from the c'ouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus. In that excellent book, so remarkable for the vivacity of...
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The Sublime and Beautiful of Scripture: Being Essays on Select Passages of ...

Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Bible - 1782 - 272 pages
...his beaver on Rife fiom the ground like feathered Mercury; And vaulted with fuch cafe into his feat As if an angel dropped from the clouds To turn, and wind a fiery Pegr.fus. from an author *• the mod likely to furnifh it : but, although fome of the allufion may...
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...his beaver on Rife from the ground like feather' d Mercury j And vaulted withfuch eafe into his feat As if an angel dropped from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegafus, In that excellent book, fo remarkable for the vivacity of its defcriptions, as well as the...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...his beaver on Rife from the ground like feathefd Mercury ; And vaulted with fuch eafe into his feat As if an angel dropped from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegafus. In that excellent book, fo remarkable for the vivacity of its defcriptions, as well as the...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...his heaver on Rife from the ground like feathefd Mercury; And vaulted with fuch eafe into his feat As if an angel dropped from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegafus. In that excellent book, fo remarkable for the vivacity of its defcriptions, as well as the...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...his beaver on Rife from the ground like feather' d Mercury j And vaulted with fuch eafe into his feat As if an angel dropped from the clouds 'To turn and wind a fery Pegafus. In that excellent book, fo remarkable for the Vivacity of its defcriptions, as well as...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...just washed. His cuisses s on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — • Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch '' the world with noble horsemanship....
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King Henry the Fourth: A Historical Play, Parts 1-2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 154 pages
...with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...Harry,—with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,— Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship....
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Paris as it was and as it is: Or, A Sketch of the French Capital ..., Volume 1

Francis William Blagdon - Paris (France) - 1803 - 534 pages
...horse, that, to borrow the words of Shakspeare, he seemed to " Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, " And vaulted with such ease into his seat, " As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds " To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, f( And witch the world with noble...
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