| George Lewis Prentiss - 1899 - 594 pages
...even creep into high places in the Nation. How often, too, do they verify the Hues 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... | |
| Huber Gray Buehler - English language - 1900 - 308 pages
...transcribed. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 4. A falcon, towering in her pride of place. Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 5. When that the poor have cried, Csesar hath wept ; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 6. The... | |
| Elias J. MacEwan - English language - 1900 - 330 pages
...returning bore the sacred mark Of earth restored, to the long-laboring ark. 9. A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 10. Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wildwood thickening green. 11. Thither being... | |
| William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...wed it. — Shakespeare : • All's Well That Ends Well* Act I. ASSOCIATION A falcon towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. — Shakespeare: 'Macbeth* Act II. ASTONISHMENT Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's... | |
| W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...to wed it. — Shakespeare : 'Alts Well That Ends Well* Act I. ASSOCIATION A falcon towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. — Shakespeare: 'Macbeth,* Act II. ASTONISHMENT Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's... | |
| Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...faithless, faithful only he, MILTON, Paradise Lost, V, line 897 Falcon, — A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed, SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, ii, 4 Fall, — Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and... | |
| Aeschylus - 1907 - 184 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, anil so could the Athenian audience. The eagle, the... | |
| Sir Max Pemberton - Medmenham Abbey - 1908 - 388 pages
...JAMES'S Old Man has remarked in the diverting i tragedy of "Macbeth" that a falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Which con| siderable misfortune, we take it, is put before us in lieu of many an ancient aphorism,... | |
| M. A. Morse - 1909 - 132 pages
...not far below freezing ; and the flakes were large, damp, and adhesive. 11. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 12. The inventions of paper and the press have put an end The consequences are alarming. The stream... | |
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