 I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And...  King Henry the Fourth: A Historical Play - Page 48by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd courtly company, or at my In'ads, — With you, mine Hat. No more, no more ; worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come... | |
 | Charles F. Ellerman - 1843 - 650 pages
...the ground, like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Henry IV. FRAY ANTONIO entered, followed by a warrior clad in a suit of mail, which, from the rust... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel had dropped down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with nohle horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more : worse than the sun in March This praise doth nourish agues.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...Art of Riding was, during the rrt we are contemplating, carried to a state of great perfection ; " To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship," «as the pursuit of every eager and aspiring spirit, and various treatises were »ritten to facilitate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 470 pages
...the ground like feather'd Mercury ; And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,...more ; worse than the sun in March, This praise doth norish agues. Let them come ; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the fire-eyed maid of... | |
 | Charles F. Ellerman - 1844 - 330 pages
...the ground, like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Henry IV. FRAY ANTONIO entered, followed by a warrior clad in a suit of mail, which, from the rust... | |
 | William Henry G. Kingston - 514 pages
...bonnet with a Lady's head in it, which just passed us? — That T. looked like an Angel on horseback. « To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. — M. put that down. The country ladies of the Minho quole Shakspeare... — Dash on 1 — over ihc... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...the ground like feather ' d Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Ml hot, and bleeding, will we offer them ; The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, Up to the ears in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Mercury, r And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, fo turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. All hot, and Heeding, will we offer them ; The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, Up to the ears in... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, doleo. As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, JRJ To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship ! Unless this description, full of poetic imagination and coloring as it is, be delivered with warmth,... | |
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