 | Emma Phipson - Animals - 1883 - 504 pages
...(Vol. iii. p. 146, ed. 1726.) And again, by Ford : — " Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin." {The Broken Heart, ii. 2.) Thomas Fuller gives us some information with respect to the number of pigeons... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 680 pages
...have had this last passage in his mind when he wrote, ' Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin.' Dramatic ífÍTÍs, vol ip 142, ed. 1831. Rändle Holme in his Academy of Armoury, says that ' Seeled... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 682 pages
...this last passage in his mind when he wrote, 'Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, H igher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin.' Dramatic Wfrrks, vol. ip 142, cd. 1831. Randle Holme in his Academy of Armoury, says that ' Seeled... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 682 pages
...have had this last passage in his mind when he wrote, ' Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier rain.' Dramatic Works, vol. ip 142, ed. 1831. Rändle Holme in his Academy of Armoury, says that '... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1888 - 508 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 formed of books and school-tradition ; It physics not the sickness of a rr.ind Broken with griefs :... | |
 | John Ford - 1894 - 172 pages
...v A passage through the womb that gave it motion. vf_ Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruins. 5 ' *. J So squibs and crackers fly into the air, A Then, only breaking with a noise, they vanish... | |
 | John Ford - 1895 - 476 pages
...found her saints, I can only reply, where Phulas found h1s dancing bears. \ Higher and higher still,7 to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with...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 eas'd With counsel,... | |
 | John Ford - 1906 - 244 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...in tune, At whose sweet music all our actions dance : I0 But this is formed of books, and school-tradition ; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken... | |
 | Harold Bayley - Criticism - 1906 - 418 pages
...it 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 headlong down with heavier ruin. FORD (Broken Heart n. 2.) 1633. This insatiate spirit of aspiring being so dangerous and fatal, desire... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - England - 1910 - 568 pages
...Squibs was another name applied to one of the varieties of crackers, often called squib-crackers. " So squibs and crackers fly into the air, Then, only...breaking with a noise, they vanish In stench and smoke." (Ford's The Broken Heart, ii. 2.) " Squibs that run upon lynes," are mentioned in Northward Ho. Coloured... | |
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Apartment. Enter ITHOCLES. Ith. Ambition ! 'tis of vipers' breed : it 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 headlong down with heavier... 
