 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 pages
...with this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. '2 That eagle's fate1 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. 3 Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...drest." K. PHILLIPS, On Controversies in Religion. " 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."—WALLER. " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 414 pages
...song to which he himself had composed the words he eays : That Fagle's fute 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. But Waller's is only the skeleton of "the Apollo;" Byron's is « the Apollo" itself. I am fearful of... | |
 | 1859 - 136 pages
...remember how Person gives it, in a verse from Waller 2 : Thai 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. MP But consider, Lord Chichester is an Estates Commissioner ; ' 'tis his vocation,' Canon. Can. To... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Great Britain - 1860 - 524 pages
...will feel somewhat like the bird, of whom 'tis said — " The eagle's fate and his were one, Who on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." The inequalities in the representative system which the honourable member for the Tower Hamlets, (Mr.... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught. " 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." The figure of an eagle killed by a dart feathered from his own wing is .very fine. It has since been... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - History - 1860 - 608 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught ; 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." Waller the poet must be ever respected. Waller the man was a curious compound : he was an aristocrat... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...Lines to a Lady singing a song of hit own composing, — That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he'd wont to soar so high. MOORE uses the same figure : — See their own feathers plucked to wing... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1860 - 434 pages
...said " Mr. Macqueen is fighting pro aris etfocis."\ * " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherowith he wont to soar on high." To A Mm- SINGING A SONU or HIS COMPOSINO. Byron has made a much... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1861 - 262 pages
...of by Waller, as quoted by Porson and Wheelwright : — " 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." And by Byron, also, in his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in the beautiful lines on Kirke White... | |
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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. 
