 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. That eagle's rate 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...with this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he used to soar so high. Had Echo with so sweet a grace Narcissus' loud complaints return' d, Not for... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...teaching I am caught. . " , . . . ! i . " . . . _J The eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, °.' Wherewith he used to soar so high. l Had Echo with so sweet a grace Narcissus' loud complaints fetUrnM, Not for... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1821 - 878 pages
...his heart. Eng. Bards. OnKirkeWldtt. Waller. — 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-)-. Poemt. v. ii, p. 29. Byron, That curse shall be forgiveness. CHe 4, s. 135. Coleridge.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 358 pages
...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, Nareissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | Euripides - 1821 - 584 pages
...nostras : TO A LADY SINGING ONE OF HIS SONGS. That Eagle'ti fate and mine are one, Who ou the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. (Alia loca ex eadem ejusdein dramatis scena desumta vide infra ad v. 750.) IX. Philemon apud Clericum... | |
 | Euripides - 1821 - 572 pages
...nostras : TO A LADY SINGING ONE OF HIS SONGS. That Eagle'« fate and mine are one, Who on the »haft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to »oar so high. (Alia loca ex eadem ejusdem dramatis scena desutnta vide infra ad v. 750.) IX. Philemon... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught. 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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face,... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1823 - 288 pages
...when he heard them sung by the Syren : " 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 on high." It is not impossible, however, that his Lordship borrowed this simile not from Waller, but... | |
 | Classical philology - 1824 - 448 pages
...Waller, on hearing a lady sing one of his songs. 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. Lord Byron has not acknowledged the debt he owes to thit idea of Waller in his fine simile on the death... | |
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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. 
