 | 1893 - 840 pagina’s
...herself. "Decide, madam," he wrote to her in his great round hand, " and decide quickly. Time flies, and the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers...The ships which the Spaniards used on the Pacific were usually built on the spot. But Magellan was known to have gone by the Horn, and where a Portuguese... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1868 - 356 pagina’s
...wish your Highness to consider that delay doth oftentimes prevent the performance of good things, for the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death." * To uphold that high state of prosperity which Raleigh foretold for England, he laid it down as a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1870 - 832 pagina’s
...every one. I will do ' it if you will allow me ; only you must resolve and not ' delay or dally — The wings of man's life are plumed ' with the feathers of death.' *• This paper is dated the 6th of November, 1577. In the first fortnight of the same month, Francis Drake had... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1870 - 698 pagina’s
...every one. I will do ' it if you will allow me ; only you must resolve and not ' delay or dally — The wings of man's life are plumed ' with the feathers of death.' 1 This paper is dated the 6th of November, 1577. In the first fortnight of the same month, Francis... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - 1873 - 172 pagina’s
...have all had our disappointments,' said W *****• L**; ' the question is, who lives over them ? ' — The wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death. — An Uncertain Writer, to Queen Elizabeth ; Fronde's History of England. You often accuse me of never... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - 1876 - 328 pagina’s
...last, have illustrated — perhaps a little too often — the maxim of the Elizabethan seaman, that the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death. In their endeavour to pluck a jewel or secret from the very crown of Nature, they have incurred again... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pagina’s
...wish your Highness to consider that delay doth oftentimes prevent the performance of good things, for ses were in his hands, Lord Wellington could once more advance' Elizabeth evidently privately approved of the enterprise, although she might not think it politic openly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 584 pagina’s
...to him the authorship of a paper written as early as 1577, in which we find the striking phrase: — 'The wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death.' Near the beginning of his ' History of the World '(l. ii. 5), he describes how we ' pass on with many... | |
 | Alexander Brown - 1890 - 698 pagina’s
...from every one. I will do it if you will allow me ; only you must resolve and not delay or dally — the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death." ' This remarkable document is not signed. On the day that it was written Sir Humphrey Gilbert had a consultation... | |
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I will do it if you will allow me; only you must resolve and not delay or dally — the wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death. 
