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 United States Democratic Review - Página 2851846Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 páginas
...Reviewers has enlarged and applied to the fate of Kirke White.* Chloris ! yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit,...fate and mine are one, 'Which, on the shaft that made bun die, Espied a feather of his own, ' Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had Echo, with so sweet... | |
| Aristophanes - 1837 - 726 páginas
...to by the poet Waller, quoted by Person, (ad Med. v. 138.) : 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, • The construction of this line is rather intricate, especially with the... | |
| George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 páginas
...addressed to a lady, on her singing some of the author's verses. " Chloris, yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit, with this spell Of mine own teaching I am caught. The eagle's fate and mine is one, That, on the shaft that made him die,... | |
| Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1839 - 204 páginas
...eos, a quibus de veritate dissentiunt. De Finibus, ii. 25. ' The 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. 32 HIS DISLIKE OF ISOCRATES. companied, on the part of the former at least,... | |
| 1841 - 808 páginas
...lines on Kirke White, which are generally considered to have been suggested by this verse of Waller's : That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the...made him die, Espied a feather of his own Wherewith lie wont to soar on high. The idea has been traced to JEschylus, whose words imply its t>iiil higher... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...shall sing. TO A LADY, SINGING A BONG OP HIS COMPOSING. CIII.ORIS, yourself you so excel, When you cret curse Swells in the farmer's breast, which his pale lips Trembling conceal leaching, I am caught. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espy'da... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...very prejudices were respectable."— LE] (10) This beautiful thought may be found in /falter.- — ge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. ' I ) Some yean afterwards, Lo E*pird a feather of liis own, 63: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 páginas
...Clitoris, yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thoughts, That like a spirit, with a spell Of my own teaching I am caught. " 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."... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 304 páginas
...yourself you so excel, That like a spirit, with a spell When you vouchsafe to breathe my thoughts, Of my own teaching I am caught. " 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."... | |
| John Galt - 1842 - 350 páginas
...may be found in the works of that ancient-modern, Waller : That eagle's fate and mine are one, Wfoich on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own ' Wherewith he wont to soar on high. His Lordship disdained to commit any larceny on me ; and no doubt the following... | |
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