 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...adversary applied to liim the couplet of Shaftesbury : " The eagle's fate and his was one — That In cel." He called the study of the law copious and generous With which he used to soar so high." This is what Bacon calls mucrones verborum — pointed speeches;... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints returned, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 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. " Paulo minora canamus. The strain we next hear is in a lower mood. And yet, perhaps, otherwise in... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1873 - 476 pages
...WALLER. Bis interimitur, qui suis armis peret (Syrus) — That eagle's fate and mine were one, Who, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar on high. WATTS. Impia, sub dulci melle, venena latent (Ovid) — The rills of pleasure never run sincere... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, [" That eagle's fate and mine are one, Whieh on the sl.aft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar on high."— WALLER.] 110.— Pago 176, line 5. This faet in Virtue's name let Crabbe attest; [" I... | |
 | Gustav Gerber - Language and languages - 1873 - 568 pages
...Walle rus nostras*: To- a Lady singing 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, Where with he wont to soar so high." Wir geben noch einige Beispiele von dieser Verwendung der Fabeln... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! Go, lovely rose. 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.2 To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. The yielding marble of her snowy breast. On a Lady... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...should agree as angels do above. Dirine Love. Canto iii. 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.1 To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. He either fears his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...know not why They should make any haste to die. WALLER. The 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 on high. WALLER. The lark still shuns on lofty boughs to build; Her humble nest lies silent in the... | |
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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. 
