 | 1860 - 634 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." The figure of an eagle killed by a dart feathered from his own wing is .very fine. It has since been... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pàgines
...Lines to a Lady singing a song of hit own composing, — 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. MOORE uses the same figure : — See their own feathers plucked to wing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 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 Wherowith he wont to soar on high." To A Mm- SINGING A SONU or HIS COMPOSINO. Byron has made a much... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1861 - 262 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... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - 1863 - 544 pàgines
...been a reader, he might have remembered Waller's verse — "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." So Mysie gained her plea, and the marriage with Anabella, for whom she had embroidered the marriage... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pàgines
...still." Byron also quotes the line from Cowper in " Beppo." " 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. " So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pàgines
...share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Go, locely 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.* To a Lady sinying a Song of his composing. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. He either fears his fate... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pàgines
...a 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 reflexion of his face... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 292 pàgines
...find a place, Whose pen and pencil yield an equal grace; * [That eagle's fate and mine are one, 'Which on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own To guide whose hand the sister arts combine, And trace the poet's or the painter's line ; Whose magic... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, 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. 
