 | Classical philology - 1824 - 456 pages
...legatum pni-ter plorare, suisque. 22. Waller, on hearing a lady sing one of his songs. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who, on the shaft that made...feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Lord Byron has not acknowledged the debt he owes to this idea of Waller in his fine simile on the death... | |
 | 1824 - 120 pages
...Majesty, that she should fall by the same hands, which she had assisted to uplift. — That eagle's fate and mine, are one, Who, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, With which he used to soar so high. • WALLER. Her Majesty regarded the late Marquis of. Londonderry... | |
 | Henry Kett - English wit and humor - 1825 - 298 pages
...trick of rising again.' 643. The poet Waller, to a lady singing one of his own songs : ' That eagl;-'s fate and mine are one. Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith lie wout to soarsohigli.' LADY WALLIS. 644. LADV WALI.IS, seeing a gentleman saunter!*,; about in one... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...and fearless Work." " The 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." WALLER. " Is not this the original of the far-famed ? " " So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain,... | |
 | John Galt - Poets, English - 1830 - 352 pages
...be found in the works of that ancient-modern, Waller : 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 on high. His Lordship disdained to commit any larceny on me ; and no doubt the following passage from... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 348 pages
...that ancient-modem, Waller : That eagle's fate and mine are one, .Which on the shaft that made hint die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar on high. His Lordship disdained to commit any larceny on me ; and no doubt the following passage from... | |
 | Spencer Perceval - 1831 - 60 pages
...destroyed the other night by my right honourable friend; and, perhaps, That 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. One of the first things that ever made any great impression of doubt or hesitation in my mind, on the... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...Waller:— TO A LADV SINGING A SONS OF HIS 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 wont to soar on high." _ CGF CHARACTER OF THE PRESENT SULTAN OF TURKEY. AT tins period when the attention of almost... | |
 | Parliament proc, Will. iv - 1832 - 890 pages
...destroyed the other night by my right honorable friend ; and, perhaps — Tlint 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. One of the first things that ever made any great impression of doubt or hesitation in my mind on the... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 300 pages
...paraphernalia of chocolate, in vainly seeking for the departed Morning Post. CHAPTER V. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who, on the shaft that made...feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. WALLER. THERK was a party of sixteen at Darmaya House. The Duke's carriage was to take Mrs. Montague,... | |
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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. 
