 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 90 pages
...kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, 70 And, like the haggard, check at every feather That...comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art: For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 202 pages
...these have bred." But the course of the dialogue plainly requires the sense of the future. P. 85. Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. — So Collier's second folio. The old text has " And like the Haggard," which just contradicts the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Brothers and sisters - 1891 - 168 pages
...kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art : For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall 'n, quite... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1891 - 568 pages
...Another way I have to man my haggard. T. of Shr. iv. i. This proud, disdainful haggard. Ibid. iv. 2. rt Adams( Tw. Night, iii. i. If I do prove her haggard, Though, that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...to illustrate ambition in rising men. Perfect knowledge of hawking is conspicuous in the plays : — And like the Haggard check * at every feather That comes before his eye. ( " Twelfth Night, " act iii. sc. 1. ) If I do prove her Haggard, Though that her Jesse's were my dear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Comedy - 1893 - 200 pages
...these have bred." But the course of the dialogue plainly requires the sense of the future. P. 85. Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. — So Collier's second folio. The old text has " And like the Haggard," which just contradicts the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Courtship - 1894 - 190 pages
...the bindweed or convolvulus. 36. haggards, wild untrained hawks. See Twelfth Night, iii. 1. 71 : ' And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.' Cotgrave (Fr. Diet.) gives : ' Faulcon hagard. A Hagard ; a Faulcon that preyed for her selfe long... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1895 - 460 pages
...that well, craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every...comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art ; For folly that he wisely shows is fit, But wise men, folly-fallen, quite... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...him that makes it. SHAKSPEARE. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. SHAKSPEARE. JEWELS. The bright sun compacts the precious stone, Imparting radiant lustre like his own;... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Boas - English drama - 1896 - 578 pages
...to the ideal of his office. /' He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.' / As he declares himself, 'cucullus non facit monachum' and he wears not motley in his brain. He_is... | |
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I might say, element ; but the word is over-worn. [Exit, Via. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; • And, like the... 
