| Medicine - 1853 - 824 pages
...Physic in Trinity College, yet it was denied him. We cannot, perhaps, correctly say that " an eagle towering in his pride of place was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed," but it was something like it Premiums, certificates, gold medals, and all other academic honors, were... | |
| George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...even creep into high places in the Nation. How often, too, do they verify the lines of the poet : " A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." No : it is not to mere politicians we must look for the correction of public evils and the perpetuity... | |
| Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...portentous omen, which 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 ; hut I have fearful forebodings that you may hereafter... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful to us ; to see how '' The eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England together,... | |
| John Franklin Reigart - Inventors - 1856 - 422 pages
...that portentous omen which 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 you may hereafter... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Act ii. Sc. 4. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. Act iii. Sc. 1. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...slay him in puny battle ;' when the other crosses my imagination, I remembtr the prodigy in Macbeth : A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl liawk'd at and kiU'd. Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one i sc-holar. They have both... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...Old M. 'T is unnatural, Even like the deed that 's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was, by a mousing owl, hawked at and killed. Rosse. And Duncan's horses (a thing most strange and certain), Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1859 - 432 pages
...dead bury their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful; to see how The eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England together,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 506 pages
...their dead. It is the broad aspect of the thing which is so wonderful to us ; to see how " The eflgle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at aud killed." This is the man who six months ago, perhaps, thought that he and Cecil were to rule England... | |
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