 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...? Old M. 'Tie unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. Ou Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Нош. And Duncan's horse, (a thing most strange and certain,) Beauteous and swift, the minions of... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - English language - 1879 - 282 pages
...have done very well. 1 caught sight of the thief climbing in at the window. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. Being apprised of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1879 - 238 pages
...outward way. With this one cp. Macbeth, Act n. Sc. 4 : "On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." We, after the event, can interpret as we read, and so could the Athenian audience. The eagle, the king... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - English language - 1879 - 202 pages
...have done very well. I caught sight of the thief climbing in at the window. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. Being apprised of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - English language - 1879 - 108 pages
...have done very well. I caught sight of the thief climbing in at the window. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. Being apprised of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...the time. — At your kind'st leisure. — Ibid., ii. i. On Tuesday hist, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. — . . . . . . Will you to Scone ?— No, cousin, I 'll to Fife. — Well, I will thither.— Well,... | |
 | 1880 - 584 pages
...Macbeth ' occurred to me at the moment, I quoted the words — On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. He said that he could well believe this was an actual scene, as when owls are hungry they will take... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...stones prate of my whereabout. 24 The labour we delight in physics pain. 25 A falcon towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 26 Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. 27 Throw physic to the dogs : I'll none... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - Cities and towns - 1881 - 416 pages
...Macbeth " occurred to me at the moment, I quoted the words — On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. He said that he could well believe this was an actual scene, as when owls are hungry they will take... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 1054 pages
...— If killed, but one dead that is willing to be so A s You Like TV, i. 2. A falcon, towering in her , Macbeth, ii. 4. We have scotched the snake, not killed it iii. 2. For thou hast killed the sweetest... | |
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On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 
