 I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard...  Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's Dream - Page 94by William Shakespeare - 1877 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...a wood of Crete thry bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding ;7 age, and the bounds, That the old carlo!1 one* was master o£ Pke. Think not t love him, thoug : f never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...Such gallant chiding ; 3 for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed,4 so sanded ; * and their heads are hung... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...hounds and echo in conjunction. Once in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Spaita : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides...never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.' " In the "Raven's Almanack for 1609," by Thomas Decker, there is a quaint description "Of Autumn, on... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...Such gallant chiding, for beside the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near — Seemed all one mutual cry ; I never heard So musical a discord, — such sweet thunder. I happened to be mounted on a superior animal, possessing youth, activity, and that great desideratum,... | |
 | Peter Brook - Drama - 1974 - 300 pages
...Hercules and Cadmus once. When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear With hounds of Sparta. Never did l hear Such gallant chiding, for besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seemed all one mutual cry. l never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. THESEUS My hounds... | |
 | John Weld - Performing Arts - 1975 - 266 pages
...in conjunction. Hip. I was with Hercules in Cadmus once When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear Such gallant...never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With... | |
 | Cyrus Hoy - Literary Collections - 1980 - 380 pages
...fleet, faire flewde, and well hangd ' ; and Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I Vi 1 1 9- 1 20 : ' My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; / So flew'd, so sanded.' 'Flewes' are then a reference to Margery's dewlaps. 5 1 whirligigs. Cf. 2 HW, V.ii. 1 5 7-1 5 8 : '... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 196 pages
...Hippolyta enter the wood, they talk about the noise of hounds in this and other huntings. Hippolyta says: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides...never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. (IV.i. 113-17) It would not occur to us to describe a cry of hounds as a kind of symphony orchestra,... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...remarks of Hippolyta on hounds' voices or Theseus on the imagination, in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for besides...groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem all one mutual cry. I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. (4.1.1 14-18) I never... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear With hounds of Sparta:96 never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for — besides...groves — The skies, the fountains, every region near, Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. THESEUS My hounds... | |
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