"Eaglet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not to be denied a sight of the eagles, even if he could not hope to capture an eaglet and take it home with ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... can fly the old birds tumble them out and tear the down and feathers from their nest. The rude and rough experience of the eaglet fits him to become the bold king of birds, fierce and expert in pursuing ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden
... some beak of rapine be set free, That, after the mountains, shall infest the sea; Before some ravenous eaglet shall be sent After our isles to gorge the continent. I'd rather a goose even from yon egg should come,— If only of the ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... daughter mate my son. This marriage sets him firmer on the throne, And foils the party of Britannicus. [To BURRUS.] You for the army answerable stand. [To SENECA.] And, Seneca, I have entrusted Nero's mind To you, to point an eaglet to the sun. Nero? What ...
— Nero • Stephen Phillips
... the true eaglet this quick luster spies, And by his SUN'S enlightens his owne eyes; He cures his cares, his burthen feeles, then streight Joyes that so lightly he can beare such weight; Whilst either eithers passion doth borrow, And both doe grieve ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace
... how thickly now, The snows of Time fall o'er my brow, Upon his wing of golden light. He passes with an eaglet's flight, And flitting onward seems to say, "Fare thee well, thou'st had ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |
