| John Bartlett - 1881 - 1046 Seiten
...shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night Macbeth, ii. 2. A falcon, lowering in her sat smiling at his cruel prey ii. 2. Pierced through the ... ii. 4. They say the owl was a baker's daughter Hamlet^ iv. 5. OWN. — Mine own, and not mine own... | |
| Charles Joseph Hayes, Henry Gillespie Hayes - 1882 - 548 Seiten
...back of that man, from his British bulldog pistol, the bullet that went clear through the spine. "The falcon, towering in his pride of place, was, by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." This gentle, kindly, illustrious chief, who had bared his breast to the bullets of the enemy, lived... | |
| Washington Irving - 1869 - 432 Seiten
...all the monarchs of Europe, Bonaparte should be brought to the feet of the Prince Regent. " An eagle towering in his pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." And now, having been led away for a moment to trace the tone of his allusion to the vast events that... | |
| Moses King - 1882 - 208 Seiten
...near, For many and many a year. NEWPORT, KY. GARFIELD. [From The Cincinnati Commercial.] ' An eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was, by a mousing owl, hawked at and killed.' REST now, afflicted one, Thy task of anguish done, Nobly thou hast endured. So short thy high career,... | |
| 1883 - 62 Seiten
...his failure was owing to his ignorance, or scorn, of political mysteries, say rather meannesses. " A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." I am reminded of the lion of Lucerne — one of the grandest designs of Thonvaldsen. It is thirty feet... | |
| United States. Congress - 1883 - 80 Seiten
...thus maimed and ruined in the midst of their fondest dreams of fame, could be appropriately written : A falcon towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. But it is better to have deserved success and failed than to have won the victor's crown by fraud and... | |
| Jane Stoker - 1884 - 114 Seiten
...lords of many lands ; Frown, and we smile, the lords of our own hands.' 'An eagle, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed.' Napoleon III., Emperor of the French, was defeated by the Germans at the battle of Sedan, 1870. ' Unwounded... | |
| David Buchanan - 1886 - 352 Seiten
...brought about, I cannot help quoting, and concluding, with two of Shakespeare's lines — An eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. (Applause from all sides of the House.) SIR HENRY PARKES AND SIR JOHN ROBERTSON: THEIR POLITICAL DECAY... | |
| Edward Richard Shaw - 1887 - 360 Seiten
...of myself, and what remains is bestial." 80. "A bevy of fair women." 81. " & falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." 82. " No Indian prince hath to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows." 83. " Or I will... | |
| Edward Richard Shaw - 1887 - 488 Seiten
...of myself, and what remains is bestial." 80. " A bevy of fair women." 81. "A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." 82. "No Indian prince hath to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows." 83. " Or I will... | |
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