...Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing...Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide. (lines 295-98) If a hare could write a poem about the misery of being hunted, he might write this:...

...and long. Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight leg and passing strong. Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock,...hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack . . -1 The second extraordinary catalogue is in The Taming of the Shrew. It has been pointed out that...

...Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 295 Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 300 301. scuds: runs 303. To bid the wind a base: to challenge the wind 304. whe'er: whether; whether:...

...Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing...did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. — William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 259-300 What do we, as a nation, care about books?...

..."Round-hooft, short-joynted, fetlocks shag and long, Broad brest, full eyes, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing...Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide." She eyed me with great curiously. "Whose steed was that?" "According to Shakespeare it was Adonis'...

...Round-hoof *d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing...starts at stirring of a feather ; To bid the wind a base he now prepares, And whe'r he run, or fly, they knew not whether; For thro' his mane and tail...

...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. What a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What a piece of work is a horse! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!...

...hooft, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long Broad breast, full eyes, small head and nostrils wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing...Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide. Vgl. hierzu S. xvii der Einleitung. Oft trit er mit bescheidnem Stolz Und edler Majestät einher, Als...