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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. "
Phoenissae. Medea - Page 425
by Euripides - 1821
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...Lines to a Lady singing a song of his oivn 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...
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A Manual of Diet in Health and Disease, Issue 241

Thomas King Chambers - Diet in disease - 1875 - 384 pages
...exclusive cultivation : — That eagle's fate and his were one, Who on the shaft that made him die Beheld a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. The elegant appreciator of nature, the author of ' The Seasons ' faded away from lazy and self-indulgent...
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The Eton Portrait Gallery: Consisting of Short Memoirs of the More Eminent ...

A barrister of the Inner Temple - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1876 - 640 pages
...plumes : — • " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die, Espyed a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar so high." The two lines in the poem " Waller's last thoughts " will be remembered by some — " The soul's dark...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...to the DYING. LONGFELLOW, Resignation. E. Eagle. — 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. E. WALLER, To a Lady Ringing a Song of his Composing. — So the struck EAOLE, stretched upon the plain,...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...know not why The)- 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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Instruction, a poem

Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...Her place of birth, her own Achaian shore. [" That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shall that made him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar on high." — WALLER.] 1 ["I consider Crabbe and Coleridge as the first of these times, in point of...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Bride o/ Abydos, Cant. H. BYROX. THE POET'S ADMIRATION. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on 2 To a I.ady singing a Son? t'/hii Ccinfcsinf. E. WALLER. Is she not more than painting can express,...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. 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. To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing. Sir W. Davenant, 1605-1668. Fame. Nor is the desire of Fame...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1882 - 1122 pages
...House might say with the poet Waller — " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the «haft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar on high." Sm JOHN LUBBOCK said, he could assure his Friends on the Ministerial side of the House that...
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The Literary World, Volume 14

Books - 1883 - 502 pages
...dart And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart " 44 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 so high." Waller. *4 Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom....
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