| 1828 - 956 páginas
...his, too, they damned with the stigma of their praise. The bait caught — the falcon, towering in his pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. The visitation of Providence overtook the second of the noblemen before alluded to, and the Protestant... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 páginas
...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 250 you... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 362 páginas
...living light should kiss it? Old M. 'Tisr unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. Rosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and cercain,) Beauteous and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 páginas
...of falconry, and means the highest pitch of flight. — See Macbeth, &c. " An Eagle towering in his pride of place " Was by a mousing Owl hawked at and killed." 2. Such as Ifarmodiut drew on Atheni' tyrant lonl. Stanza xx. line 9. See the famous song on Harmodius... | |
| 1821 - 618 páginas
...the highest pitch of the eagle's flight. Shakespeare, in his Macbeth, says, An eagle, towering to his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. Note VIII. Yet ! these are talismans, that break The sleep of visions. Amulet, a charm, or preservation... | |
| Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 344 páginas
...beautiful poetic colouring which he has thrown over the circumstances of the Chronicle : " On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. Rosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain), Beauteous and... | |
| Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 páginas
...beautiful poetic colouring which he has thrown over the circumstances of the Chronicle : " On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. Rossc. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain), Beauteous and... | |
| 1824 - 696 páginas
...blazons the above portentous title ! His mind instantly recurs to the dreaded prodigy of old. — . , " A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawkt-at and kill'd." Happy to perceive his newspaper is not black-edged, he explores its columns with... | |
| 1828 - 962 páginas
..."his, too, they damned with the stigma of their praise. The bait caught — the falcon, towering in his pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. The visitation of Providence overtook the second of the noblemen before alluded to, and the Protestant... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 páginas
...I'L Do'st thon love hawking ? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. Id. A fadcon tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Id. A long-winged hawk, when ho U first whistelcd off the £st, mounts aloft, and for bis pleasure... | |
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