 | Theodore Edward Hook - English fiction - 1833 - 212 pages
...then l)e defied — laughed at his own weakness, and whistled; as if, like Othello, he could — " Whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune." But that humour lasted only for a moment — he stopped — stamped on the ground with vexation and... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...foreign execution." " If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune." Si Philip Sidney writes, " Quick-sronting spannell, fit for prinrelie game, To pearch the pheasant... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...foreign execution." " If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune." Si Philip Sidney writes, " Quick-scenting spannell, fit for princelie game, To pearcli the pheasant... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1835 - 1048 pages
...door. CHAPTER LVI. If I proro her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart strings, I '11 whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. Othello. IN spite of the anger boiling in his mind, he resolved to dissemble, the more surely to effect... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 474 pages
...gained the staircase. " Gone " cried Miss Hodges ; " then never will I see or speak to her more. Thus I whistle her off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune." " Gracious heart ! what quarrels," said Nat, " and doings, the night before our wedding day !" We leave... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit '-' Of human dealings". If I do prove her haggard,3 Though that her jesses * were my dear heart-strings,...off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. Haply, for 1 am black ; And have not those softs parts of conversation That chamberers have ; 5 —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart. 21— v. 5. 357 If I do prove her haggard,1 Though that her jesses'" were my dear heart-strings,...off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...lasting." Gentleman's Academic, fol. 13. в* • " If I do prove her haijgard, Though that herjesset . The vacant spaces were occupied by stag's horns. Against the wall was posted King Charles's Go Act iii. sc. 3. A haggard is a species of hawk wild and difficult to be reclaimed, and which, if not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealin»» : If I do prove her haggard,' Though that her lesscs4 were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black ; And have not those soft parts of conversation That chambcrers* have ; — Or,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...love's settled passions in my heart. 21— v. 5. 357 If I do prove her haggard,* Though that her jessesf were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off*, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. 1 had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love,... | |
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If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. 
