 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 278 pages
...; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 280 pages
...cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic, morality... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1888 - 286 pages
...with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but...pathetic, morality of her Burns ; how, from the bosom of a countiy like that, genius and character, and talents, should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil,... | |
 | Zeno - 1889 - 200 pages
...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 pages
...cool and ardent ; adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less pathetic and sublime morality of her Burns — how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius,... | |
 | Michael Patrick O'Connor - 1893 - 588 pages
...Commonwealth, our neighbor, whose eagle flight in enterprise is ever onward toward the setting sun, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires, graces the occasion by the presence of the representatives of her martial sons. It is gratifying to... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 pages
...only the brave few who can 'clear the copse at a bound,' break over the magic bourne and stretch away with 'an eye that never winks and a wing that never tires,' into new regions and new worlds, who distinguish themselves from the crowd, and rise to glory that... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 pages
...cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...with the wreath of every muse ; from the deep and scrutinising researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 462 pages
...wealth; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not the less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns — how, from the bosom of a country like that,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 458 pages
...wealth; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing...researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not the less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns—how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius.... | |
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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... 
