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Chase, The: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey; Who, warm'd with youth's blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut up from all the fair creation offers?— JOANNA BAILLIE — Ethwald. Pt. I. Act 1. Sc. 1.

Broad are these streams-my steed obeys, Plunges, and bears me through the tide. Wide are these woods-I tread the maze Of giant stems, nor ask a guide. I hunt till day's last glimmer dies O'er woody vale and glassy height; And kind the voice, and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night.— BRYANT — The Hunter of the Prairies.

He thought at heart like courtly Chesterfield, Who, after a long chase o'er hills, dales, bushes, And what not, though he rode beyond all price, Ask'd next day, "if men ever hunted twice?"— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 35.

Archers ever Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?— CHAPMAN — Bussy D' Ambois. Act II. Sc. 1.