 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...places by our author, apparently in the sense required here, in Macbeth : " A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place, " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." Again, in the Midsummer's Night's Dream : «' VfMmous'd, Lion!" Mousing, 1 suppose, in all these places,... | |
 | James Boswell - 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 what... | |
 | 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 what... | |
 | 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 sufficient... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 558 pages
...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. Rosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain,) War with mankind. Old M. Tis said,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 412 pages
...? 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... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...to 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 gratuitous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...? 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. Rosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing most strange and certain,) Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
 | 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... | |
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Tis 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. 
