| British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...gnaws A passage through the womb, that pave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher, still to perch on clouds, But tumbles...whose sweet music all our actions dance. But this is form of books and school-tradition, It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs : strong... | |
| English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...gnaw» A passage through the womb, that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, and boa> to the altar. Oh, great corrector of enormous times, wjth a noise, they vanish In stench and smoke. Morality, applied To timely practice, keeps the soul... | |
| John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled1 dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin. * A seeled dove.] To seel is a technical term in falconry, and signifies to sew up the eye-lids. So... | |
| John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 682 pages
...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled6 dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles...whose sweet music all our actions dance : But this isform['d] of books, and school -tradition; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled* dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles...But this is form['d] of books and school-tradition ; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs : strong fevers are not eased With counsel,... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 424 pages
...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled* dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles...whose sweet music all our actions dance : But this is fonn['d] of books and school-tradition; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs :... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 pages
...foundation of a family curse by " kicking the altar of righteousness with profane foot." It knows that • morality, applied To timely practice, keeps the soul...tune, At whose sweet music all our actions dance." And it feels instinctively that " it is no toy, Though ignorance at slight esteem hath set her That... | |
| John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...found her saints, I can only reply, where Phulas found his dancing bears. Higher and higher still,7 to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with...whose sweet music all our actions dance : But this is formf'd] of books and school-tradition ; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs :... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1869 - 140 pages
...because he cannot see about him.'—Bacon's Essays )• 'Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin.' Which keeps me pale !—Light thickens; 1 and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood ; Good things of... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...had Bacon's comparison in mind, where it is said — ' Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin.' — ii. 2, be less dangerous. There is less danger of them if they be of mean birth than if they be... | |
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