 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain, that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and, 'on a mornidg appointed, the maker... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and, on a morning appointed, the maker appeared... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 σελίδες
...unissant la légèreté à la force. L'artiste se persuadait chaque jour davantage certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and, on a morning appointed , the maker... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more*certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. 14. In a year the wings were finished, and, on a morning appointed, the maker... | |
 | William Nassau Lees - 1867 - 304 σελίδες
...they have soared beyond even their own imaginations. But, like the artist of the ' Happy Valley' who ' waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake,' all have similarly come to grief. And such no doubt,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished ; and, on a morning appointed, the maker... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished; and, on a morning appointed, the maker appeared... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 618 σελίδες
...fate of the flier. Appearing duly equipped for his aerial journey, one fine morning, on the top of a little promontory, " he waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake:" whence the Prince Rasselas pulled him out, " half... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 456 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and to unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and on a morning appointed the maker appeared,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 446 σελίδες
...facilitate motion, and to unite levity with strength. The artist was every day more certain that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince. In a year the wings were finished, and on a morning appointed the maker appeared,... | |
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In a year the wings were finished; and on a morning appointed the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory. He waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake. 
