 | English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...his heart. — Eng . Bards. On KirkeJVhite. Waller. — That eagle's fate and mine are one. Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to fly so high. Poems, T. ii. p. ta. Byron. That curse shall be forgiveness. C. Ii. c. 4, s. 13*. Coleridge.... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching, I am canght. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...own teaching I am caught. . " , . . . ! i . " . . . _J The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, °.' Wherewith he used to soar so high. l Had Echo with so sweet a grace Narcissus' loud complaints fetUrnM, Not for... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...spirit^ with this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he used to soar so high. Had Echo with so sweet a grace Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart, &c. WALLER. Mine anil that Eagle's fate are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, With which he us'd to soar so high. We quote Waller from memory only, but we believe we quote him substantially... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...Lines " on hearing a lady singing one of his own songs." " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own With which he ns'd to soar so high." As for " his Lordship's" verses on the Death of the Princess Charlotte,... | |
 | Euripides - 1821 - 572 pages
...SINGING ONE OF HIS SONGS. That Eagle'i fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, E>pied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. (Alia loca ex eadem ejusdem dramatis scena desumta vide infra ad v. 750.) .,_ __ , IX. Philemon apud Clerieum p. 372. fui... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1823 - 288 pages
...own numbers, when he heard them sung by the Syren : " That eagle's fate and mine are one, '•'Who on the shaft that made him die, *' Espied a feather of his own, " Wherewith he wont to soar on high." It is not impossible, however, that his Lordship borrowed this simile not from Waller, but... | |
 | Classical philology - 1824 - 448 pages
...£2. Waller, on hearing a lady sing one of his songs. That eagle's. fate and mine are one, Who, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Lord Byron has not acknowledged the debt he owes to thit idea of Waller in his fine simile on the death... | |
 | 1824 - 120 pages
...the same hands, which she had assisted to uplift. — That eagle's fate and mine, are one, Who, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, With which he used to soar so high. • WALLER. Her Majesty regarded the late Marquis of. Londonderry... | |
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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 
