 | Henry Morley - Ballads, English - 1868 - 284 pages
...like a spirit with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught. 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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! Go, lovely 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.2 To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. The yielding marble of her snowy breast. On a Lady... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...infrequent. Cf. " Lady of the Lake," I. xx. 20, and 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 so high." " Wonted " is a familiar past participle from the same verb. 12. The victim's dread.] The dread usually... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...armis perit. SYR. — He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons. " That eagle's fate and mine were one, Who, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar on high." WALLER. See "Nostris ipsorum." Bis peccare in bello non licet. — War gives no opportunity... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. GO, lovely 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.t To a Lady singing a Song of his composing. * Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts... | |
 | Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...on hearing his own verses badly sung : The eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that bade him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 97. On this legend compare Note on Ex. 25, line 15. 3. <pavela-ris pSíjs] when the art of song had... | |
 | 1870 - 770 pages
...winged the shall that quivered in his heart." ENGLISH BARDS. "The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith lie wont to soar so high." WALLER'S POEMS. Benthyciodd y Parch. William Ambrose, Porthmadog, yr un... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...adversary applied to liim the couplet of Shaftesbury : " The eagle's fate and his was one — That In cel." He called the study of the law copious and generous With which he used to soar so high." This is what Bacon calls mucrones verborum — pointed speeches;... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...adversary applied to him the couplet of Shaftesbury: " The eagle's fate and his was one — That in the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own. With which he used to soar SO high." This is what Bacon calis muerones vertxn-um — pointed speeches;... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints returned, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
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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. 
