Coriolanus, who was afraid that ' girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle ;' when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd... Forest life, by the author of 'A new home'. - Page 47by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...battle ;" when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth: "A falcon tow'ring in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me, however, do them justice. One is a wit and one a scholar.' ' To Johnson might be applied... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...battle ;" when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : "A falcon tow'ring in his pride of place. Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me, however, do them justice. One is a wit and one a scholar." 1 To Johnson might be applied... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth •' " A falcon tow'ring in his pride of place, " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar. They have both shown acuteness... | |
| 1803 - 444 pages
...one *hort moment, condemned, reviled, and set at nought ? Shall it be said that The Falcon tiw'ring in his pride of place, Was by a MOUSING OWL hawKd at, and kill'd? Let us hope that more justice, as well as a far more suitable reward, awaits his literary deserts;... | |
| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...the action of the lion, in pouncing on the garment, as a cat would on a mouse — in Macbeth— " An eagle, towering in his pride of place, ." Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd." MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. ACT I. SCENE I. 27. " My book of songs and sonnets." Mr. Malone's... | |
| George Huddesford - 1805 - 220 pages
...squint eye Had wept, if you'd been slain by Drake ! hukespeare's owl that killed a falcon. A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was, by a mousing owl, hawk'd aland killed. <25 If, when such tragic fate befel ye, On duck or drake we 'd chanc'd to dine, The very... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...buttle ; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth; " A faleon tow'ring in his pride of place, " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar.f They have both shown acuteness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...battle ; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : " A faleon tow'ring in his pride of place, " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar.f They have both shown acuteness... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...battle ; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Muci-eth : " A falcon tow'ring in his pride of place, " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar. They have bath shown acutcne^... | |
| William Gifford - 1811 - 220 pages
...pif, NOTES. for an antagonist: this, though not quite so fair, is not altogether unprecedented; An eagle towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at! There is a trait of scholarship in Mr. Jerningham's last poem, which should not be overlooked;... | |
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