 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 sayfa
...be seen M the left hand ; to which circumstance Butler's interrogation may lx taken to refer — " Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? " Similarly writes Bourne : If a crow cry, it portends some evil • and one of Gaule's Vain Observations... | |
 | John Brand - 1901 - 556 sayfa
...Capitol.1 The ancients held them iu • Thus Butler, in his Hudibras, p. ii. canto iii. 1. 707 • " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustration* (Our synod calls humiliations) the utmost abhorrence,1 and thought them, like the seieech... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 478 sayfa
...Then owles nor night-ravens were No tellers of ill-happes. Friar Baton's Prophesie, 1604 (Percy Soc.). Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? Butler, Hudibras, ii. 3. As the raven by nature is a foreteller of death, &c. — Cawdray, Tr. of... | |
 | Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 222 sayfa
...name — Ravens and crows." And Butler, writing of these two birds in a similar strain, asks — " Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak on trees? " If I were to answer this question, I should be compelled to acknowledge that in all ages,... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 sayfa
...whistler shril, that whoso heares doth die." Butler alludes to this ancient sentiment : " The Bximan Senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustrations (Our Synod calls humiliations,) The round fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town and country hurt."... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 408 sayfa
...there no myriads of this sort, Which Stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all Countreys, 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,)... | |
 | 1918 - 644 sayfa
...then we can view in a just perspective impossible now the ancient canto in Hudibras: The AMA Council, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustrations The round-faced prodigy to avert, From doing town or country hurt. [With apologies to Butler.] Present-Day... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sayfa
...in the old tree hollow. Is carried away in a gust of wind. EB BROWNING— Isabel's Child. St. 19. 16 lt to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by...kind manner and gentle speech. CICERO— De Offic * * * « The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. BUTLEB— Hudibras. Ft.... | |
 | 604 sayfa
...lustrations necessary to purify the capital from such a visitation ; or, as Butler wittily writes — "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 doing town and country hurt." Page... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1883 - 462 sayfa
...the appearance of the Great Owl in the temples, to which allusion is made by Butler in his Hmiibras : The Roman Senate, when within The city walls an Owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustration (Our synod calls, humiliation). The round-faced prodigy i' avert From doing town and country... | |
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Which 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, 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (Our Synod calls Humiliations)... 
