 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 William Shakespeare - Page 83by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 944 pages
...Wanton as youtliful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cnisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 1 10 Hot. No more, no more : worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues. Let them... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1999 - 308 pages
...Harry with his beaver on, His cushes on his thigh, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury And vaulted with such ease into his seat As...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. (4.1.98-110, my emphasis) The audience's sense that Vernon reports precisely the sunrise promised in... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - History - 2001 - 438 pages
...Gaultree Forest scene (IV.i) of Henry IV Part II. I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cushes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground...Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Finally Vernon - who seems to take considerable pleasure in the delivery of bad news - reveals that... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...the messenger of the gods (ie the classical equivalent to 'angel'): 1 saw young Harry with his heaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise...and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with nohle horsemanship. (i Henry IV, iv. i. 104) The Dauphin's praise of his horse as a wondrous Pegasus... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...'soldiership', closely related to the other two. It, also, may be vividly idealized: I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly...Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. (l Henry IV, iv. i. 104) 'Horsemanship' is frequently associated with soldiership. Now in the history... | |
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