 | John William Postgate - 1916 - 158 pages
...prosecution at the trial of Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield : A falcon towering in its pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed. Hunting with the hounds is also described with a master hand. Shakespeare proves himself acquainted... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...is a term of faiconry, meaning the highest pitch of flight. See Macbeth: "An eagle towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed." — Byron. For the correct form of the quotation, see Macbeth, Act IT, scene IV, line 12. Byron copied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...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 and kill'd. Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar. They have both shown acuteness... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...Benjamin Heath: for his The Revisal of Shakespeare's text see Vol. 4, No. 203. A falcon tow 'ring in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed. [2.4.12] Let me however do them justice. One is a wit, and one a scholar. They have both shewn acuteness... | |
 | Melanie Krämer - Opera - 2000 - 190 pages
...Duncans Pferde, die sich gegenseitig aufgefressen haben sollen, genannt („A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and killed", u, iv, 12/13; ,,'Tis said they [Duncan's horses] eat each other", II, iv, 18). Im menschlichen Bereich... | |
 | Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt - Nature - 2007 - 386 pages
...we have: 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 killed. I have seen such a falcon (kestrel, Falco tinnunculus) intensely harass and irritate a mousing owl... | |
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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... 
