 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 538 pages
...goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry with his beaver on Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury; And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus. In that excellent book, so remarkable for the vivacity of its descriptions as well as the solidity... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1957 - 214 pages
...imaginatively conceived : I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly artn'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. (1v. i) A reader used to the complexities of Shakespeare's mature judgements — and this play already... | |
 | 1913 - 910 pages
...gallantly he is mounted. I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and win a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. He covets honor then, as he always... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...with his beaver on, His ouisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat,...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... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 200 pages
...from Henry IV, Part I, in which Sir Richard Vernon enthusiastically describes how Prince Henry rose from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted...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... | |
 | Peter Thomson - History - 1999 - 244 pages
...with his beaver on, His cushes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat...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 - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...Retch's outlines will 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...Pegasus, / And witch the world with noble horsemanship;" Matthew Prior, "Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700,"ll. 212—13: "The fiery Pegasus disdains / To... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 pages
...with his beaver on, His cushes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. (IV, i, 104-110) Hotspur interrupts, for he cannot hear such words about his rival. Yet at the same... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, — with res Many that have at times made moan to me; Therefore...duke Will never grant this forfeiture to hold. ANTO scat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...with his beaver on, His cushes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. (4.1.98-110) The audience's sense that Vernon reports precisely the sunrise promised in the first act... | |
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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... 
