| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...Old Man. 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday lastt A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. Posse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain,) Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
| 1853 - 824 Seiten
...Physic in Trinity College, yet it was denied him. We cannot, perhaps, correctly say that " an eagle towering in his pride of place was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed," but it was something like it Premiums, certificates, gold medals, and all other academic honors, were... | |
| 1855 - 624 Seiten
...portentous omen, which marked a people's degradation, and the successful crime of an intruder : — A falcon, towering in his pride of place, • Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Yes, my friend ! my heart bleeds while I utter it ; hut I have fearful forebodings that you may hereafter... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful to us ; to see how '' The eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England together,... | |
| John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...that portentous omen which marked a people's degradation, and the successful crime of an intruder : '"A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.' " Yes, my friend ! my heart bleeds while I utter it ; but I have fearful forebodings that you may hereafter... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Act ii. Sc. 4. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. Act iii. Sc. 1. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 Seiten
...slay him in puny battle ;' when the other crosses my imagination, I remembtr the prodigy in Macbeth : A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl liawk'd at and kiU'd. Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one i sc-holar. They have both... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 Seiten
...Old M. 'T is unnatural, Even like the deed that 's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was, by a mousing owl, hawked at and killed. Rosse. And Duncan's horses (a thing most strange and certain), Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...dead bury their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful; to see how The eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England together,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 506 Seiten
...their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful to us ; to see how " The eflgle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at aud killed." This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England... | |
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