His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859], On John Dryden (1828).
Ostrich from a Byzantine mosaic
in ancient Theodorias (Libya), AD 539.
Image source: livius.org (an excellent site).
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