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You pick up the skeleton of a bird upon a moor; and if you know anything about osteology the science of bones you will see, in the very make of its breast-bone and its wing-bones, the declaration that its destiny was to soar into the blue.
"I shall be," returned Miss Vernon "that is," said she, correcting herself "I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage. But to return to Rashleigh," said she, in a more lively tone, "you will think him the pleasantest man you ever saw in your life, Mr.
Remember that your German peoples, too, will raise their eyes to the Phoenix which will soar, with shining plumage, from the flames which are kindling here, and their despair give place to warm longing, the parent of dauntless courage, of battle to the very death!" "I thought of all this," said Edgar, "before I left my own country, to shed my blood for your freedom.
For example: “Past hours, If not by guilt, yet wound us by their flight, If folly bound our prospect by the grave, All feeling of futurity be numb’d, All godlike passion for eternals quench’d, All relish of realities expired; Renounced all correspondence with the skies; Our freedom chain’d; quite wingless our desire; In sense dark-prison’d all that ought to soar; Prone to the centre; crawling in the dust; Dismounted every great and glorious aim; Enthralled every faculty divine, Heart-buried in the rubbish of the world.”
For my part I look up with admiration, as fervent as any one untrained in art can, to those divine creations of old religion which soar over the smoke and din of our cities into purity and stillness and seem to challenge us, with all our wealth and culture and science and mechanical power, to produce their peer till the age of faith shall return.
"Now my task is smoothly done, I can fly or I can run," to skim the earth, to soar above the clouds, to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow, and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia, which the musky winds of the zephyr scatter through the cedared alleys of the Hesperides. There are several of the minor poems of Milton on which we would willingly make a few remarks.
"True," replied the Crane; "but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill." Fine feathers don't make fine birds. The Fox and the Hedgehog
In it are found critics too petulant to be passive to a genuine poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men, who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily 'into the region'; men of palsied imaginations and indurated hearts; in whose minds all healthy action is languid, who therefore feed as the many direct them, or, with the many, are greedy after vicious provocatives; judges, whose censure is auspicious, and whose praise ominous!
Some people were of opinion, that Douce Davie had been rather surprised into this step, for, in general, he was no friend to marriages or giving in marriage, and seemed rather to regard that state of society as a necessary evil, a thing lawful, and to be tolerated in the imperfect state of our nature, but which clipped the wings with which we ought to soar upwards, and tethered the soul to its mansion of clay, and the creature-comforts of wife and bairns.
All of them were born under about the same conditions, all received about the same training or lack of it. However, no one at first suspected that the eagle was an eagle more than a score of years were to pass before he was suddenly to spread out strong, sinewy wings and soar to the ether. Patrick Henry caused his parents more trouble and anxiety than all the rest of the family combined.
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