 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...Magazine of Natural History, may be added the following mention of the dog by Shakspeare : " My hounds arc bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dow-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but mateh'd in mouth like bells, Each under each."... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1857 - 520 pages
...shall hear the music of my hounds. — Uncouple in the western valley : let them go ! — Dispatch, I say, and find the Forester. — We will, fair Queen,...bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never halloo'd to, nor chcer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear. —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...our observation is perform'd ; And since we have the vaward of the day, My love shall hear the music of my hounds. — Uncouple in the western valley ;...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and devv-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth-like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - Dramatists, English - 1920 - 200 pages
...near, Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. Theseus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | Rowland Evans Robinson - Natural history - 1921 - 276 pages
...and for another day. Our best dogs are well described by Shakespeare in "Midsummer Night's Dream": " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Athens (Greece) - 1922 - 272 pages
...near 115 Seem'd all one mutual cry. I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. Theseus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; 120 Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1923 - 528 pages
...mutual cry. I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. And then the deeper tone of Theseus My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 720 pages
...to the enthusiastic sportsman. And the same is true of the beauty of the dogs described by Theseus: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match 'd in mouth like bells Each under each.... | |
 | Godfrey Fox Bradby - 1926 - 100 pages
...sleeper as the barking of a dog at night. He had, indeed, the sportsman's eye for a good hunting breed. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match' d in mouth like bells, Each under each.... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 424 pages
...poetry of the hunt gives us the hounds of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with their ' gallant chiding.' My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind So flew'd,...that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dewlapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.*... | |
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My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.... 
