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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... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 83
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Scene 2. (Polonius to himself, in his trial of Hamlet's sanity.) I/ARRY. — I saw young Harry, with his beaver on. His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. SHAESPERE. — King Heury IV. Part I. Act IV. Scene 1. (Sir Richard Vernon to Hotspur.) HAR VEST. —...
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On Taste: On the Sublime and Beautiful ; Reflections on the French ...

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...
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Shakespeare: From ‘Richard II’ to ‘Henry V’

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...
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Catholic World, Volume 96

1913 - 890 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...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 64

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...
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Mind in Creation: Essays on English Romantic Literature in Honour of Ross G ...

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...
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Shakespeare's Professional Career

Peter Thomson - Drama - 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...
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Political and Social Essays

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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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...
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The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative ...

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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