 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 702 pages
...ufual at ThefTaly, and by Caefar brought to Rome. In the tenth book of Heliodorus you will find that Theagenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull ; which breaking loofe from the facrifice he firft purfues on horfeback, then quitting his horfe, he... | |
 | James Cavanah Murphy - Portugal - 1795 - 388 pages
...Upton's, refpecting Spenfer's Fairie Щиеет. " In the tenth book of Heliodorus you will find that " Theagenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild " bull. We have at Oxford now, a very valuable monu" ment of this ftrange kind of fport. — This was a fport " to " to inure the youths to warlike... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1796 - 612 pages
...Spenfer's Fairic Queexe. " In the tenth book of Heliodonis you will find that Tlieagenes both tiimed and rode on the back of a wild bull. We have at Oxford...now, a very valuable monument of this ftrange kind of fpcrt.— This was a fport to inure the youths to warlike exercifes, ufual at Thefialy, and by Cxfar... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...refpcfting Spenfer's Fairie Querne. " In the tenth book of Heliodorus you will find that Theagcncs both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull. We...have at Oxford now, a very valuable monument of this flrange kind of fport. — This was a fport to inure the youths to warlike exercifes, ufual at Theflaly,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...ufual at Thefl'aly, and by Csefar brought to Rome. In the tenth book of Heliodorus you will find that Theagenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull ; which breaking loofe from the facrifice he lirft purfues on horfeback ; then, quitting his horfe,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...at Theflaly, and by Ca;l'ar brought to Rome. In the tenth book of Heliodorus you •will find that Theagenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull ; which breaking loof'e from the facrifice he h'rft purfues on horfeback ; then, quitting his horfe,... | |
 | 1842 - 468 pages
...Upton's, respecting Spenser's Faery Queen. " In the tenth book of Heliodorus, you will find that Theogenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull. We...have at Oxford now, a very valuable monument of this strange kind of sport. This was a sport to inure the youth to warlike exercises, usual in Thessaly,... | |
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Caefar brought to Rome. In the tenth book of Heliodorus you will find that Theagenes both tamed and rode on the back of a wild bull ; which breaking loofe from the facrifice he... 