 | Henry Drummond - Great Britain - 1860 - 522 pages
...read. They 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1861 - 262 pages
...т au ra, ¿XXà т¡ éavтav yv¿,рrf." The idea was made use of by Waller, as quoted by Porson and Wheelwright : — " That eagle's fate and mine...the beautiful lines on Kirke White : — " So the struek eagle, stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own... | |
 | 1862 - 722 pages
...out," he might say — " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who in the shaft that made him die Beheld a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." I really believe the idea is original. swear positively that he believed this substance to be a powerful... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...still." Byron also quotes the line from Cowper in " Beppo." " 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 stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1863 - 544 pages
...been a reader, he might have remembered Waller's verse — "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." So Mysie gained her plea, and the marriage with Anabella, for whom she had embroidered the marriage... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Go, locely 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.* To a Lady sinying a Song of his composing. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. He either fears his fate... | |
 | Thomas King Chambers - 1865 - 652 pages
..."goes out," he may say: " That eagle's fate and mine are one. Who in the shaft that made him die Beheld a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar so high." I really believe this expansion of the idea to be quite original. Good coprologists tell us that 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. 
