 Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did...  Retrospective Review - Page 384edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...crest, fhnrt ear», Biraighl legs and passim; Чпии;. Thin mane, thick tail, bruuü buttock, lender sons in Rome .' — Well, bury him, ancí bury me the next. [Mutius tí p ou so proud a hack. Sometime« he scuds far off, and there he «tares, Anon he starts at stirring of... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - Hunting - 1852 - 620 pages
...eye, small head and nostrils wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide—- Look what a horse should have !" " LOOK what a horse should have !" Willie of Avon being judge ! and acknowledge, gentle sportsman,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...eyes, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look...starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid the wind a base he now prepares, For through his mane and tail the high wind sings, Fanning the hairs, who wave... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, strait legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look...he starts at stirring of a feather. To bid the wind a base1 he now prepares, And whe'r he run, or fly, they know not whether. 1 ТоЫ/t the wind a bast:... | |
 | Duty - 1853 - 228 pages
...eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide, Look...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back ! Sometime he scuds far off, and here he stares, Anon he starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 484 pages
...eye, small head, and nostril wide. High crest, short, ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look,...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Sometime he scuds far off, and there he stares ; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather : To bid the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...full eye, small head, and nostrils wide, High crest,short ears, legs straight and passing strong, Thin meet them at Philippi. Bru. The deep of night is crept...must obey necessity ; Which we will niggard with a li Sometime he scuds far off, and there he stares ; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather ! To bid the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...short ears, straight Ic/'s and pausing strong, Thin inane, thick tail, broad buttnck . tender hid<- : l eon finit». Lear. Whv, u back. Sometimes he scuds far off, runl there he stare*. Anon he starts at stirring of a feather ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...full eyes, sm;ill head and nostril wide. High crest, short ears, strait legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide, Look...not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back." Now this inventory of perfections shows great knowledge of the horse ; and is good matter-of-fact poetry.... | |
 | Art - 1854 - 630 pages
...WOUVERMANB. High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide. Look what a horse should have, he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back." Wouvermans has none of that soft melancholy which some of the Flemish school were so fond of. It is... | |
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