 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...should agree as angels do above. Dirine Love. Canto iii. 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.1 To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. He either fears his... | |
 | Thomas King Chambers - Diet in disease - 1875 - 384 pages
...exclusive cultivation : — That eagle's fate and his were one, Who on the shaft that made him die Beheld a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. The elegant appreciator of nature, the author of ' The Seasons ' faded away from lazy and self-indulgent... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...should agree as angels do above. Dirine Love. Canto iii. 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.1 To a Lady singing a Sony of his Composing. The yielding marble of her snowy breast On a Lady... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Poetics - 1885 - 264 pages
...Well. Or take Waller's conceit : — " The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that saw him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar so high." The great similes of classic poetry find frequent imitation. Thus we may trace one simile (of dead... | |
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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. 
