| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...a 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,... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 890 pages
...following simile Waller has been copied by Lord Byron — " That eagle's fate and mine were one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." Of the few gems we have been enabled to gather from the sands of this poetic Pactolus, the following... | |
| James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pages
...fighting pro aris ct focis."-\ * " That eagle.s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that mode him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar on high." To A LADT SINGING A SONG OF HIS CoMrosisii. Uyron has made a ranch finer and nobler use of... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...Commission. It calls to my mind the often quoted lines of Waller, to a lady singing one of his songs :— " That Eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft...feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high ! " 7 Prov. xv. 33. EUBULUS. It was here that Selden got entangled ; and for this it was that I qualified... | |
| John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...his songs : — . " That Eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die ; Esgied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high ! " » Prov. xv. 33. 72 THE LEARNED SELDEN. HISTORY OF TITHES. EUBULUS. It was here that Selden got... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...ii. — KLT.LER. To a Lady singing a Song of his composing. 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. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. Song, "My Dear and only Love." I '11 make thee famous by my pen, And... | |
| William Peter - 1856 - 590 pages
...the spell Of my own teaching I »in caught. That Eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the slmfl that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Lines, by Lord Бутоп, on Henry Kirie White, tr/m died at ambridg«, in October, 1КЮ, tkrougk... | |
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