| 1908 - 1088 pagine
...the ground like feathered 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. Who shall say that Shakespeare does not share Dante's power of succinct expression in similes that... | |
| John Dover Wilson - 1979 - 160 pagine
...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.' 'A more lively representation', comments Dr Johnson, 'of young men ardent for enterprize, perhaps no... | |
| Ross Greig Woodman - 1992 - 200 pagine
...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. Blake literalizes Sir Richard's figure for Henry's stately confidence and royal power by painting a... | |
| Alan Dundes - 1992 - 334 pagine
...would rather you said anything to them than 'How well you are looking' " 43 We find Hotspur exclaiming: No more, no more; worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. 44 In Far from the Madding Crowd (Chap. 15) Thomas Hardy makes effective use of the superstition that... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pagine
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pagine
...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. HOTSPUR No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come!... | |
| Peter Thomson - 1999 - 244 pagine
...the ground like feathered 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. (IV.i.gS- 1 10) Tournament and masque were, in Jacobean England, about equidistant from drama, and... | |
| Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 pagine
...understand our allusion. [LSM] For "fiery Pegasus," see 1 Henry IV 4. i. 108—io: "As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds / To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, / And witch the world with noble horsemanship;" Matthew Prior, "Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700,"ll. 212—13: "The fiery Pegasus disdains / To... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pagine
...gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his scat, e duke cannot HOTSPUR. No more, no more: worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 260 pagine
...from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. HOTSPUR No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them comel They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war All hot and bleeding... | |
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