 | 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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...farewells 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...singers 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...Waller's lines : " The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espy'da feather of his own, Wherewith he -wont to soar so high." And so in i Henry VI. I. ii. 14 : " Talbot is taken, whom we -wont to fear." Comp. the disuse of use in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...once 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... | |
 | 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, { 2 To a I.ady singing a Son? t'/hii Ccinfcsinf. E. WALLER. Is she not more than painting can express,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Eliezer Edwards - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 684 pages
...winged the shaft that quivered iu his heart. Waller has : — The eagle's fate and mine an* one, Which on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his o«'«, Wherewith lie wont to mar on high. c C or K. The Keltic alphabets had no k, but the letter... | |
 | 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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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. 
