 | 1893 - 840 pages
...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 of death." This was not in Drake's line. He kept to prose and fact. He studied the globe. He examined all the charts... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Raleigh, Walter - 1868 - 356 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1870 - 832 pages
...mines ' and the profit of the soil. You will be monarch of ' the seas and out of danger from every one. I will do ' it if you will allow me ; only you must...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... | |
 | Edward Law Hussey - Quotations - 1873 - 172 pages
...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1875 - 650 pages
...from every one. I will do it if you will allow me ; only you must resolve and not delay or dully — The wings of man's life are plumed with the feathers of death.' l This paper is dated the 6th of November, November. 1577. In the first fortnight ot the same month,... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - Discoveries in geography - 1876 - 328 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1889 - 584 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1890 - 698 pages
...mines and the profit of the soil. You will be monarch of the seas and out of danger from every one. I will do it if you will allow me ; only you must...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."* This shows how men's minds were working. 
