 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 682 ページ
...in hand." Henry VI., part ii. " The owl shriek'd at thy birth, an evil sign." Henry VI., part iii. " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...with lustrations (Our synod calls humiliations), The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt." -jHudibras, part ii. canto iii. 709.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 ページ
...crows and ravens croak upon trees ? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen/ 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our synod...humiliations, The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt. And if an owl have so much pow'r, 715 Why should not planets have much more, That... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 ページ
...crows and ravens croak upon trees ? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 7-0 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations (Our Synod...Humiliations), The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt. And if an owl have so much pow'r, 715 Why should not planets have much more, That... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 ページ
...mighty states to govern by ;9 And this is what we take in hand, By pow'rful art, to understand ; • The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,] Anno ante Christum 97, bubone in urbe viso, urbs lustrata. Bubone in capitolio supra deorum simulacra... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 ページ
...stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 7^0 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations (Our Synod calls Humiliations), The round-fac'd prodigy... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 478 ページ
...convincing manner • — " Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...seen, . '' . Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (By'r synod call'd humiliations,) The round-faced prodigy t 'avert From doing town and country hurt... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 ページ
...convincing manner : — " Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (By'r synod call'd humiliations,) The round-faced prodigy t'avert From doing town and country hurt... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 ページ
...Her midnight screams to hode my latter end." NOTES TO THE OWL. (') Thus Butler, in his " Hudihras," p. ii. canto iii. 1. 707 : " The Roman Senate, when...Did cause their clergy with lustrations (Our Synod culls humiliations) The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town and country hurt." " According... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 562 ページ
...as old as the fifth century ; and Butler banters the ancient Romans for their believing it : — " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...Synod calls humiliations, The round-fac'd prodigy to avert, From doing town or country hurt." Page 151, line 10. And tis his policie that in the time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 284 ページ
...as old as the fifth century ; and Butler banters the ancient Romans for their believing it : — " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...Synod calls humiliations, The round-fac'd prodigy to avert, From doing town or country hurt." Page 151, line 10. And tis his policie that in the time... | |
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Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees ?§ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-faced prodigy t' avert From... 
