 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 pages
...veuchfafe to brwth my Thought, That like a Spirit 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 Eipy'da Feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to foar fi> high. Had Eccho, with fo fweet a Grace, N*rci/us'... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...objected that he was superficial. Dr. Johnson defended him warmly'. He said, ' Pennant has greater variety 'That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the...feather of his own. Wherewith he wont to soar so high.' Epistle to a Lady. Anderson's Poets, v. 480. ' See ante, iii. 308, Of 252 Pennant s TOUR IN SCOTLAND.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...&c. so that I would have exhibited a general view of their poesie, throughout its different ages." That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft...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 reflexion of his face.... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 472 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teachbg, I am caught. That eagle's fate and mine are one AVhich , on the shaft that made him die, Espy'da 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... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...vouchsafe to breathe my thought, I'imt, like a spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching, I am canght. 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'... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That like a spirit, 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'... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...teaching, — I am caught. * This poison, my reader will recollect, was administered to the ear. The Eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Esp/da feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.* Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus'... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...célèbrent que les malices. P. 45. Men's wrongs alone in mind we bear; Ingratitude is every where : Their injuries we in metal grave, And write their...his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Waller. — Tô a Lady tinging a Song of kit comparing. Non, non, rien que notre manie Ne tient sa puissance... | |
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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. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints return'd, Not for reflection of his face, But of his... 
