| Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...breathe my Thought ; That, like a Spirit, with this Spell Of my own Teaching, I am caught. That Eagle's Fate and mine are one, Who, on the Shaft that made him die, Efpy'da Feather of his own, With which he wont to foar fo high : < :<• Had Had Euha with Ib fweet... | |
| English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. — Eng . Bards. On KirkeJVhite. Waller. — That eagle's fate and mine are one. Who on the shaft that made...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, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...a 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... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...my 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... | |
| Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart, &«. WALLER. Mine and 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 go high. We quote Waller from memory only, but we believe we quote him substantially... | |
| 1821 - 702 pages
...a plagiarism from Waller's 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 - 584 pages
...Wallerus nostras : TO A LADY SINGING ONE OF HIS SONGS. That Eagle'ti fate and mine are one, Who ou the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. (Alia loca ex eadem ejusdein dramatis scena desumta vide infra ad v. 750.) IX. Philemon apud Clericum... | |
| Euripides - 1821 - 572 pages
...xe&' îeevrâv : ÎfJf nostras : »rt(àf. WallerUS TO A LADY 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... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - 1823 - 288 pages
...lady, became himself a victim to his own numbers, when he heard them sung by the Syren : " That eagle's fate and mine are one, '•'Who on the shaft that...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... | |
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