 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 - 1853 - 832 pages
...ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel had dropped a priest, lord chamberlain ? Your friends at Pomfret they do need the priest : Your hoiscmanship. Hot. No more, no more : worse than the sun in March This praise doth nourish agues. Let... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down frdm the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch§ the world with noble horsemanship. HOTSPUR'S IMPATIENCE FOR THE BATTLB Let them come; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to... | |
 | Frederic Townsend - American fiction - 1853 - 296 pages
...; To an uncurrent BankNote, etc., etc. Glorious, inspiring subjects ! Delightful fields, wherein " To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble Poetry." Or to speak more correctly, this is a most wilful bringing down of the said Pegasus from his... | |
 | John Burnet - 1854 - 480 pages
...the ground, like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.' And, by the way, we are in time to see young John go through the same part in the circle. I'll go on... | |
 | Henry Whitelock Torrens - 1854 - 468 pages
...the ground like feathered Mercury ; And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.* in this I say our master slily lets us, who twig the thing, into the fact that Prince Hal, living in... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 528 pages
...barrack. He never chafes and frets at want of position. Whether he bears " Young Harry with his beaver on, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship ; " or makes personal and real, our own witty poet's invocation — "Ay ! gather your reins, and crack... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...the ground like featherd 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. First fart Henry VI. Act IV. So. 2. King Henry. Lord Cardinal, if thou think'st on Heaven's bliss,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." Chiron. THE CENTAURS. These monsters were represented as men from the head to the loins while the remainder... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaunted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords At this encounter do so much "admir noblo horsemanship. Hot. No more, no more : worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship." THE CENTAURS These monsters were represented as men from the head to the loins, while the remainder... | |
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