 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 strani
...For man is verily like a featherless eagle which, had its pinions never been plucked, might be able with an " eye that never winks and a wing that never tires " to soar into the heavens and to gaze upon the sun. It was the opinion of Marcus Antonius that men... | |
 | 1872 - 246 strani
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering, winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1872 - 632 strani
...sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires — crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 strani
...sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science with an eye that never winke and a wing that never tires — crowned, an she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked... | |
 | 1882 - 866 strani
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned as she is with the spoils of every art and decked with the wealth of every Muse, from the deep and... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1887 - 464 strani
...obligation is due ; to whom may be applied the language of my eloquent countryman, that he has ' winged his eagle flight against the blaze of every science with...eye that never winks and a wing that never tires.' I mean Henry, Lord Brougham, who during a long life has devoted himself to the cause of law reform,... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 278 strani
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 286 strani
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and... | |
 | Zeno - 1889 - 200 strani
...words of one of our countrymen who was an orator, soars in the full blaze of the arts and sciences 'with an eye that never winks and a wing that never tires ' — that you have vowed, and I now vow for you — Ireland shall be free." Dean Swift, writing of... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1890 - 658 strani
...and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent ; adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science,...never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned as she is with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and... | |
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Scotland — a nation, cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering, winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every... 
