 | James Clement Moffat - 1856 - 300 pàgines
...had sung for him one of his own songs, occurs the following stanza : " The eagle's fate and mine was one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar BO high." What is here only a puny conceit, has been improved into the most beautiful passage in the... | |
 | William Peter - 1856 - 590 pàgines
...the spell Of my own teaching I »in caught. That Eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the slmfl that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Lines, by Lord Бутоп, on Henry Kirie White, tr/m died at ambridg«, in October, 1КЮ, tkrougk... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows : That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he'd wont to soar so high. In Thomas Moore's poetic epistle, " Corruption," the same figure also occurs:... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pàgines
...stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows: That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he'd wont to soar so high. In Thomas Moore's poetic epistle, " Corruption," the same figure also occurs:... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows : " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he'd wont to soar so high." In Thomas Moore's poetic epistle, " Corruption," the same figure also occurs... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 pàgines
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. 2 That eagle's fate1 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. 3 Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | 1859 - 136 pàgines
...Can. Don't you remember how Person gives it, in a verse from Waller 2 : Thai 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. MP But consider, Lord Chichester is an Estates Commissioner ; ' 'tis his vocation,' Canon. Can. To... | |
 | 1859 - 414 pàgines
...song to which he himself had composed the words he eays : That Fagle's fute 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. But Waller's is only the skeleton of "the Apollo;" Byron's is « the Apollo" itself. I am fearful of... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1860 - 524 pàgines
...the extracts which I will read. They will feel somewhat like the bird, of whom 'tis said — " The eagle's fate and his were one, Who on the shaft that...feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." The inequalities in the representative system which the honourable member for the Tower Hamlets, (Mr.... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 pàgines
...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." Waller the poet must be ever respected. Waller the man was a curious compound : he was an aristocrat... | |
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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. 
