 Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears his rider headlong...  Spelling and dictation class-book - Страница 62по Constable and co, ltd - 1864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 456 страници
...shouting." Virgil, in his Third Georgic, written many centuries later, again speaks of the war horse :— '' The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promised fight." The war-horses in the frieze of the Parthenon at Athens, now placed in the British Museum as the Elgin... | |
 | Virgil - 1880 - 450 страници
...gray ; For beauty, dappled, or the brightest bay : Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 страници
...were his nails, like silver to behold ; His body glittered like the burnished gold. 9. THE WAB-HOBSE. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...fight ; On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined Euffles at speed, and dances in the wind. Eager he stands, — then, starting with a bound. He turns... | |
 | William Bayley - 1883 - 104 страници
...Hippomedon ; Not as in Northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light : On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind : Firm fixt his tread and light, as when on high He walks the impalpable and pathless sky : While round... | |
 | Bouquet - 1883 - 106 страници
...Hippomedon ; Not as in Northern climes obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light : On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind : Firm fixt his tread and light, as when on high He walks the impalpable and pathless sky : While round... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - 1885 - 280 страници
...is unmiftakable : " The fiery courfer, when he hears from far The fprightly trumpets and the fhouts of war, Pricks up his ears and trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promifed fight. On his right moulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at fpeed and dances in the wind.... | |
 | 1886 - 552 страници
...fear, But still press on, to do or die ! " ED. PORTER THOMPSON. flery courser, when he hears from far I The sprightly trumpets and the shouts of war, Pricks...Eager he stands. — then, starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solidcrouud; Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears... | |
 | Hiram A. Cutting - 1886 - 416 страници
...gray ; , For beauty dappled, or the brightest bay; Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight. Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd, Humes at speed, and dances in the wind.... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 624 страници
...color gray; For beauty dappled, or the brightest bay ; Faint white and dun will scarce the rearing pay. The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclin'd Kufflos at speed, mid dances in the wind.... | |
 | 1894 - 764 страници
...of speed — (There was Celtic blood in the pair).' (Lindsay Gordon, ' Legend of the Cottiswnld.') ' The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly...Eager he stands — then starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground ; Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow, lie... | |
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