 | 1886 - 574 pàgines
...feast of the soul is melted away. PLATO. ["Tbi« reads like Tom Moore.l That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar on high. WP fTbe idea is, of course, to be found hi JEscbylus'a ' Fragments.' See Plumptre's translation,... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pàgines
...following simile Waller has been copied by Lord Byron — " That eagle's fate and mine were one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." Of the few gems we have been enabled to gather from the sands of this poetic Pactolus, the following... | |
 | 1851 - 830 pàgines
...Felt the same shaft which his own feathers dress'd. 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. This is cool robbing, no doubt. But here are two more instances. MOORE. — Little's Poems.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pàgines
...said " Mr. Macqueen is fighting pro aris etfocis."\ * " 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." To A LADY SINGINO A SONU OF HIS COMPOSING. Byron has made a much finer and nobler use of... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1852 - 152 pàgines
...was made use of by Waller, as quoted by Porson and Wheelwright : — " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." And by Byron, also, in his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in the beautiful lines on Kirke White... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pàgines
...fighting pro aris ct focis."-\ * " That eagle.s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that mode him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he wont to soar on high." To A LADT SINGING A SONG OF HIS CoMrosisii. Uyron has made a ranch finer and nobler use of... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pàgines
...often quoted lines of Waller, to a lady singing one of his songs :— " That Eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die; Espied a...feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high ! " 7 Prov. xv. 33. EUBULUS. It was here that Selden got entangled ; and for this it was that I qualified... | |
 | Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) - 1854 - 402 pàgines
...Aristophanes — * ' itrfpols »nd (perhaps) imitated by Waller — " That eagle's fate and mine arc ore, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, woman praising a large cup, and disparaging the oxybaphum as small. So when some one says to her —... | |
 | Philo (of Alexandria.) - 1855 - 514 pàgines
...evidently the original of the stanza in Waller's Ode to a Lady Singing — "That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to Boar BO high.' imperfect, since a part is less than the whole ; and as the foot was cut off from Dion,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...ii. — KLT.LER. To a Lady singing a Song of his composing. 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. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. Song, "My Dear and only Love." I '11 make thee famous by my pen, And... | |
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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. 
