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" My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. "
Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by ... - Page 347
by Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814
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The History of the County of Derby, Part 1

Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...Sitwcll, bart. in the Scarsdale hundred, arc excellent. My hounds »re of the Spartan kind, So fleeced, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook'd kneed, and dew-lapp'd tike Thc&salian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like belle,...
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...Shakspeare in the following lines : — " My Hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, BO sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd, like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit ; but match'd in mouth like bells,...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 19

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...gravelblind, knows me not. Id. Merchant of Venice. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind. So flowed, to sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew. Sbakspeart. Safer shall he be on the (andy plains. Than wheip castles mounted stand. Id. Sand hath...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 19

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...knows me not. Id. Merchant of Venice. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed, so landed, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew. Shakspeare. Safer shall he be on the sandy plains. Than wherj; castles mounted stand. Id. Sand hath...
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Virgil: The Eclogues

Virgil - Agriculture - 1830 - 348 pages
...length'ning all his spires. With gradual trail the last loose coil retires. 336 Molossia, a city of Epirus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,...
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Literary Recollections, Volume 1

Richard Warner - Authors - 1830 - 420 pages
...of the princely sportsman in Shakspeare : " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, " So flewed, so sanded ; and their heads are hung " With ears, that sweep away the morning dew ; " Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd, like Thessalian bulls ; " Slow in pursuit ; but match'd in mouth like...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ;h and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd...
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Arrian on Coursing: The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translatd from ...

Arrian - Coursing - 1831 - 334 pages
...the old English breed. With it they have more points in common than with their fabled progenitors ; My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd,...are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook -kuee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit ; but match'd in mouth like...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 23

1852 - 538 pages
...Holdemess THE UNSUCCESSFUL MAN; OB, PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF TILBURY NOGO, ESQ. BY FOXGLOVE. CHAP. XIX. " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind — So...are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and llew-lapped, like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells...
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Arrian on Coursing: The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translatd from ...

Arrian - Coursing - 1831 - 334 pages
...English breed. With it they have more points in common than with their fabled progenitors ; My houndi are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded,...are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-Iap'd, like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit ; but match'd in mouth like bells,...
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