 | English literature - 1870 - 604 pages
...brightest of mankind be invariably the meanest ? ' The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight : strip 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1873 - 466 pages
...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,... | |
 | F. Peel - English language - 1874 - 144 pages
...admire this proverb : " Well begun is half done." 2. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight : strip 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...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. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falhland Islands. 1 l1e that will not when he may. When he will,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports of craft, and forcing every stand that retiring nature c tJie earth." Such arc some of the characteristics of the style of Junius, which made Mr. Mathias, author... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - English language - 1875 - 558 pages
...image: " The king's honor is that of his people. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." The proof from handwriting seems to have proved, quite recently (1871), Junius to have been... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...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. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands. OLD TESTAMENT. IT is not good that the man should... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1878 - 312 pages
...honors, cannot rise above others." METAPHOR. — " The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." (3) Personification (from the Latin persona, person, and fa cere, to make) consists in treating... | |
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Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. 
