Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French writer, poet, and politician
Book IV, Note III, p. 50
Les confidences (1849)
“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit..”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
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Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Eagles, for variations on this theme.
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Andrew Thomson (1814–1901) British writer
Samuel Rutherford Unwin Bros, Gresham Press, London 1891
“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”
John L. Lewis (1880–1969) American labor leader
When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 826. A number of authors have addressed this common motif of an eagle shot with an eagle-feather arrow
