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" The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair ; Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms... "
Chaucer'S Canterbury Pilgrims, Retold by Katharine Lee Bates; Illustrated by ... - Page 92
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1914 - 316 pages
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Wat Tyler

Pierce Egan - Peasant uprisings - 1851 - 624 pages
..." The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glar'd betwixt a ydlow and a red : He look'da lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair." IBID. "Fearfully the yell arose Of his followers and his foes ; These in joy, in fary those ; Then...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...; The balls of his broad eyes roll'd in his head, And glar'd betwixt a yellow and a red: He look'da oll'd Her motions, as the great first Mover's hand First whecl'd thei Big-bon'd, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shoulder'd, and his arms were round and long....
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 4

1855 - 534 pages
...have sat for the portrait of the surly king delineated by Chaucer : — He looked a lion, with a glooy stare. And o'er his eye-brows hung his matted hair : Big-boned and large of limb, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long. The country people in...
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Selections from the Poetry of Dryden: Including His Plays and Translations

John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...eyebrows hung his matted hair: Big-bon'd, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shoulder'd, and his arms were round and long. Four milk-white bulls (the Thracian use of old) Were yok'd to draw his car of burnish'd gold. Upright he stood, and bore aloft his shield,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...eye-brows hung his matted hair: Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shoulder'd, and his arms were round and long. Four milk-white bulls (the Thracian use of old) [ Were yoked lo draw his car of burnishM gold. Upright he stood, and bore aloft his shield,...
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Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face ; The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked...and long. Four milk-white bulls (the Thracian use of old) Were yoked to draw his car of burnished gold. Upright he stood, and bore aloft his shield,...
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Pelham; or, The adventures of a gentleman [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. by ...

Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1854 - 400 pages
...I, and a devilish queer-looking person he is, — ' The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked...stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.' Well remembered, and better applied— eh, Mr. Pelham ?" " Really," said I, " I am not able to judge...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...The balls of his broad eyes roll' d in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He look'da lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung...Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shoulder'd, and his arms were round and long ; Upright he stood, and bore aloft his shield, Conspicuous...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 132

1864 - 522 pages
...Thrace ; Black was his beard, and тaщу was his face ; The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked...gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.^f By way of mane, we suppose. Somewhat to the same effect is Gray's bardic vision of Elizabeth,...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...balls of his broad eyes roll'd in his I 1 • : I , And glared betwixt a yellow and a red : He look'da lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eye-brows hung...hair : '** Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strone, Broad-shoulder'd, and his arms were round and longFour milk-white bulls (the Thracian use of...
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