 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 reflection of his face, But of his...  The Acharnians, Knights, Wasps and Birds of Aristophanes, tr. by a graduate ... - Seite 214von Aristophanes, John Wood Warter - 1830 - 252 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. Dirine Love. Canto iii. 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.1 To a Lady singing a Sony of his Composing.... | |
 | 1883 - 502 Seiten
...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart " 44 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." Waller. *4 Like a young eagle, who... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 442 Seiten
...m««tan ; Dan. -wonen ; G. wohttfn, to dwell, persH continne " (Wedgewood). So in Waller's lines : " The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espy'da feather of hts own, Wherewith he went to soar so high." And so in l Hetory Vf. 1 ii. 14: " Talbot is taken, whom... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 Seiten
...vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like 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'... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 Seiten
...That, like a spirit, with this spell CHLORIS ! 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'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 566 Seiten
...Johnson defended him warmly'. He said, ' Pennant has greater variety 'That eagle's fate and mine arc one. Which on the shaft that made him die, Espy'da feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.' Epistle to a Lady. Anderson's Poets, v. 480. 3 See ante, iii. 308.... | |
 | 1892 - 524 Seiten
...BEATTIE, The Minstrel. This day we fashion 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... | |
 | 1892 - 520 Seiten
...BEATTIE, The Minstrel. This day we fashion 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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 Seiten
...of Kirke White. Waller says, in his " Lines to a Lady singing a Song of his own Composing,"— The ! in apprehension how like a god !—Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. Sir Th Espied a feather of his own Wherewith he'd wont to soar so high. Moore uses the same figure : Like... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 Seiten
...of Kirke White. Waller says, in his "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... | |
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