 Zelmane protested that the fit prey for them was hearts of princes. She also had an angle in her hand, but the taker was so taken that she had forgotten taking. Basilius in the meantime would be the cook himself of what was so caught, and Gynecia.  Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Sida 259efter John Ford - 1827Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 sidor
...the eyes. A term of falconry, the eyes of л wild or haggard hawk being for a time seeled or closed. H 6ۖ ad N R _ 7 Du i _W | jw VJ R t Wu8Un ($ Nh_ strave. Sidney. Mine eyes no more on vanity shall feed, But Keled up with death shall have their deadly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 sidor
...principem.' Erasmus, Apophthegmata, sub tit. Dionysius. 1. 14. a seeled dove] Conf. 'Now she brought him to see a seeled Dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave.' Sidney's Arcadia, lib. ip 55 (4th ed. 1613). The process of seeling is fully described in... | |
 | John Ford - 1895 - 476 sidor
...Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward. Higher and higher still, &c.] To seel is to blind by sewing-up the eyelids. There is a similar allusion to that in...piece of cruelty is sometimes resorted to for sport I The poor dove, in the agonies of pain, soars, like the lark, as soon as dismissed from the hand,... | |
 | John Ford - 1895 - 440 sidor
...so available, we'll write to Athens Higtur and higher still, &c.] To seel is to blind by sewing-up the eyelids. There is a similar allusion to that in...the Arcadia; "Now she brought them to see a seeled d1me, who the blinder she was the higher she strove to reach." It is told in the Gentleman's Recreation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 280 sidor
...uses. Among amusements provided by Zelmane (Sidney's Arcadia, bk. i. ed. 1725, p. 99) this figures : " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove, who, the blinder she was, the higher she strove." 113. In . . . judgements] Probability and Steevens's illustration from Henry V. 1n. v. 59 : " He '11... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 sidor
...To "seel" was to close the eyelids partially or entirely with fine thread. Cf. " Now she brought him to see a seeled dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave." Sidney, Arcadia, i. 4 Macro: Dion Cassius, Iviii, 9. When Tiberius was ready to deal a final... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 290 sidor
...uses. Among amusements provided by Zelmane (Sidney's Arcadia, bk. i. ed. 1725, p. 99) this figures : " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove, who, the blinder she was, the higher she strove." 113. In . . . judgements] Probability and Steevens's illustration from Henry V. in. v. 59 : " He '11... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - 1910 - 564 sidor
...harmless doves for the mere sport of witnessing their frantic and helpless misery. We are told in Sidney's 'Arcadia, " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove,...blinder she was, the higher she strove to reach." In an explanatory note to a passage in Ford's The Broken Heart, Gifford says : " It is told in The... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1912 - 592 sidor
...would be the cooke him selfe of what was so caught, & Gynecia sit stil, but with no stil pensifnesse. Now she brought them to see a seeled Dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave. Another j time a Kite, which having a gut cunningly pulled out of her,j and so let flie, called... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - 1915 - 338 sidor
...the mere sport of witnessing their frantic and helpless efforts in misery. We are told in Sidney's Arcadia, " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove,...blinder she was, the higher she strove to reach." We have, however, not exhausted the allusions to falconry in Petruchio's speech. " I have a way to... | |
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