 | Alaric Alfred Watts - 1884 - 368 pàgines
...dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart.' English Bards. ' 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 fly so high.' Poems, voL ii., p. 29. BYRON AND YOUNG. ' We gaze and turn away, we know not where, Dazzled... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 264 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 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,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1892 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1892 - 520 pàgines
...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 —... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pàgines
..." Lines to a Lady singing a Song of his own Composing,"— The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. Sir Thomas Browne, he'd wont to soar so high. Moore uses the same figure : Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pàgines
..."Lines to a Lady singing a Song of his own 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'd woat to soar so high. Moore uses the same figure : Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 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. 
