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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. "
The Birds: With Notes, and a Metrical Table - Page 179
by Aristophanes - 1861
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Lyria Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 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 return'd, Not for reflection of his face,...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...yourself you so excel, 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 retum'd, Not for reflection of his face,...
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The Magazine of Poetry, Volume 4

Poetry - 1892 - 524 pages
...Destiny, our web of Fate we spin. WHITTIER, The Crisis. 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 singing a song of his composing. Life treads on life, and heart on heart — We...
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 4

American poetry - 1892 - 520 pages
...Destiny, our web of Fate we spin. WHITTIER, The Crisis. i 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 singing a song of his compos-ing. Life treads on life, and heart on heart —...
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The Poems of Edmund Waller, Volume 1

Edmund Waller - 1989 - 256 pages
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...nature, moulding men. r. TENNYSON — In Memoriam. CXXIV. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, RTON — The Lady of La Qaraye. Pt. II. L. 381. Far in a wild, unknown ». EDMUND WALLER — To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing. Ep. XIV. I saw him even now going...
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Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria: Selected and Edited with Notes and ...

Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 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 return'd, Not for reflection of his face,...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...loving." SHAEESPKAKE. Othello (Desdemona), Act V., Sc. II. " 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. To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing. " So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,...
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Mr. Thackeray's Writings in "The National Standard," and "Constitutional."

William Makepeace Thackeray, Sebastian Evans - English literature - 1899 - 342 pages
...equally against them. — They may cry out with old 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 so high." The careless or timid policy which allowed the laws against the press, which changed the constitution...
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British Anthologies, Volume 6

Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...a Spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught! That eagle's fate and mine is 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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