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
| 1859 - 414 páginas
...lady who killed him w!th a 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"... | |
| 1859 - 136 páginas
...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,'... | |
| 1860 - 634 páginas
...singing a song of his own composing. This is but one of many. " Chloris, yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit,...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... | |
| John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 páginas
...singing a song of his composing — " Chloris, yourself you BO excel, When you vouchsafe to hreathe my thought, That, like a spirit, with this spell Of...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... | |
| 1870 - 546 páginas
...adversary applied to him the couplet of Shaftesbury: " The eagle's fate and his was one — That in the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own. With which he used to soar SO high." This is what Bacon calis muerones vertxn-um — pointed speeches;... | |
| 1870 - 546 páginas
...adversary applied to liim the couplet of Shaftesbury : " The eagle's fate and his was one — That In cel." He called the study of the law copious and generous With which he used to soar so high." This is what Bacon calls mucrones verborum — pointed speeches;... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...utmost sight. TO CHLORIS SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING. CHLORIS! yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit,...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... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 páginas
...that the delighted Waller indited the stanzas beginning, "Chloris ! yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That, like a spirit,...made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. " Paulo minora canamus. The strain we next hear is in a lower mood. And yet,... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 páginas
...wunian; Dan. wonen; G. woknent to dwell, persist, continue " (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 lus own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." And so in i Henry VI. J., ii. 14 :... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 páginas
...prejudices were respectable."] 109.— Page 175, line 31. Viewed his oion feather on the fatal dart. [" That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of bis own Wherewith he wont to soar on high." — WALLER."] 110.— Page 176, line 5. This fact in Virtue's... | |
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