 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1883 - 544 pages
...do they spend their mouths; echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. " By this poor Wat, far off, upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...be compared well To one sore-sick, that hears the passing-bell. " Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return, indenting with the way... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 pages
...do they spend their mouths ; Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick, that hears the passing-bell. Then shall tliou sec the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn and return,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 596 pages
...do they spend their mouths ; Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick, that hears the passing-bell. Then shall thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn and return,... | |
 | Kegan Paul - 1883 - 332 pages
...they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. ' By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell. ' Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return,... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...do they spend their mouths; Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell. Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English literature - 1924 - 904 pages
...they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. ' By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell. ' Then shall thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return,... | |
 | Dodgson Hamilton Madden - Falconry - 1924 - 300 pages
...certain lines of Venus and Adonis read like a poetical version of Xenophon's words : By this poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...listening ear, To hearken if his foes pursue him still.* (Venus and Adonis, 697.) His disappointment when he reads of the importance of the work of the net-keeper... | |
 | Clara Longworth comtesse de Chambrun - 1927 - 392 pages
...musits through the which he goes Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes. . . . [7] * By this poor Wat, far off upon a hill Stands on his hinder legs with...hear; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell. Then shalt thou see the dew bedabbled wretch Turn, and return,... | |
 | Liverpool Biological Society - Biology - 1928 - 260 pages
...Adonis. The verse which describes the nearing of the end of the chase is exquisite : " By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with...hear, And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing bell." Since we have mentioned the hare it may be noted that coursing... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 pages
...fugitive are numbered: By this, poor Wat, far off, upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs; with list'ning ear, To hearken if his foes pursue him still; Anon...hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick, that hears the passing-bell. Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch, Turn and return,... | |
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By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear, To hearken if his foes pursue him still ; Anon their loud alarums he doth hear ; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell. 
