| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...kiss it ? Old M. 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A faulcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. 340 Rosse. And Duncan's horses (a thing most strange, and certain), Beauteous and swift, the minions... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 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." 1 To Johnson might be applied what... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 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.' ' To Johnson might be applied what... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 558 pages
...kiss it? Old M. Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd...Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain,) War with mankind. Old M. Tis said, they eat each other. Rosse. They did so; to the amazement of mine... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 412 pages
...kiss it ? Old M. 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. IloAW. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain,) Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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 sufficient... | |
| 1803 - 444 pages
...*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 - 498 pages
...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 gratuitous... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, 6 Was hy a mousing owl' hawk'd at, and kilFd. iRosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain)...the minions of their race,* Turn'd wild in nature, hroke their stalls, flung out, Contendtng 'gainst ohedience, as they would make War with mankind. Old... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...last, A falcon, tow'ririg in her pride of place,s Was hy a mousing owl7 hawk'd at, and kill'd. Home. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain)...the minions of their race,' Turn'd wild in nature, hroke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst ohedience, as they would make "War with mankind.... | |
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