 | Emma Phipson - Animals - 1883 - 476 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
...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
...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
...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 - 471 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 - 132 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
...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 - 143 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 - 393 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... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - Quotations, English - 1916 - 488 pages
...rivals. — SIR JOHN DENHAM. Ambition — continued. Ambition, like a seeled [blind] dove mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin. — JOHN FORD. As ambitious as Lady Macbeth. — JAMES HUNEKER. Ambition, like a torrent, never looks... | |
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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... 
