 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth; " A faleon 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.f They have both shown acuteness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : " A faleon 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.f They have both shown acuteness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Muci-eth : " 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 bath shown acutcne^... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...battle; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : A falcon tow1 ring in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawK'd at and killed. Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar*. They have both shewn acuteness sufficient... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 626 pages
...separe.e pour jamais de la societe" des hommes !" Note VII. " At pride of place," the eagle's thriek. A term of falconry ; — the highest pitch of the...towering to his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. Note VIII. Yet ! these are talismans, that break The sleep of visions. Amulet,... | |
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Coriolanus, who was afraid that "girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle"; when the other crosses my imagination. I remember the prodigy in Macbeth, An eagle tow'ring in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at... 
