 | 1870 - 604 Seiten
...hopelessly incompatible with goodness? Must the brightest of mankind be invariably the meanest ? ' The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false pretences... | |
 | 1870 - 596 Seiten
...hopelessly incompatible with goodness? Must the brightest of mankind be invariably the meanest ? ' The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false pretences... | |
 | Lucien Brock Proctor - 1870 - 808 Seiten
...did ; and he could only say of him as Junius did of the king, "The feathers that adorn him support his flight; strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth," and that he should endeavor, in a quiet way, to take some of the gentleman' s plumage from him, just... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 Seiten
...tartan beats us; we have no preaching like that in England." 12. Private credit is wealth ; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. — JUNIUS. 13. The chariot ! the chariot ! its wheels roll on fire ! As the Lord cometh down in the... | |
 | 1873 - 790 Seiten
...direction when he declared, in the sonorous wordings which were proper to him : " Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security ; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight ; strip him of his plumage and you pin him to the earth." "These grand talking^, however,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 428 Seiten
...(above all) the ever-abounding and appropriate imagery. For imagery in Junius take : ' Private credit is wealth. Public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its ffight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' For insight into character and... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 466 Seiten
...Private credit is wealth. Public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' For insight into character and felicitous expression : ' Examine your own breast, Sir William, and... | |
 | F. Peel - 1874 - 144 Seiten
...used to introduce a quotation or a speech. 1. I admire this proverb : " Well begun is half done." 2. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. (Junius.) 5. INTERROGATION. The note of interrogation (?) at the end of a sentence denotes a question.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 Seiten
...the language of the metaphor is sustained and consistent throughout: Speaking of the king's honor: "The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his...flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth."—Juniut. "In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved; white everything... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 Seiten
...hopelessly incompatible with goodness ? Must the brightest of mankind be invariably the meanest ? ' The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his 1 M. Lanfrey is at present French Minister Plenipotentiary for Switzerland. In a letter dated Berne,... | |
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The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. 
