 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
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 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. (295-300) Dowden, in his famous comment on this passage, spoke truer than he knew when he asked with... | |
 | Varadaraja V. Raman - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 398 pages
...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,...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Small wonder that such a majestic animal was .considered fit offering to the gods to invoke a blessing.... | |
 | Gail Rentsch, Steven D. Price, Barbara Burn, David A. Spector - Pets - 1998 - 356 pages
...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,...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. " Venus and Adonis Good leg Over at knee Back at knee and its surroundings? Any biting, kicking, shying?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 102 pages
...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...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 28 Le voici qui trotte : il compte ses pas, Noble majesté, orgueil retenu ; II saute et bondit, se... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1999 - 212 pages
...eye, small head and nostril wide, 297 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 not lack, 300 Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 301 Sometime he scuds far off, and there he stares; Anon... | |
 | Ian Bradley, Peter Gale, Mark Winterbottom - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 166 pages
...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...did not lack Save a proud rider on so proud a back. from Venus and Adonis by Shakespeare ...she stood like a statue, watching, her head very high, cleancut... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...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...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Sometime he scuds far off, and then he stares; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather; To bid the... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...In our Penus arid Adonis description we have a fine example of a horse-bird comparison: Sometime be scuds far off and there he stares; Anon he starts at stirring of a feather; To bid the wind a base he now prepares, And whether he run or fly they know not whether; For through his mane and tail... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...a noose. proud] sexually excited, a term frequently used punningly. Cf. Venus and Adonis, 299-300: 'Look what a horse should have he did not lack, / Save a proud rider on so proud a back.' 22. sick man's salve] Thomas Becon's Sycke Mans Salve was a religious tract which went through many... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...him" (3.7.21-23). A similar association with air marks the temperamentally lively stallion of Adonis: Anon he starts at stirring of a feather; To bid the wind a base he now prepares, And whe'er he run, or fly, they know not whether; For through his mane and... | |
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