Eagle. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Eagle


That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espy’d a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Waller.—To a Lady singing.	1
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom. Tom Moore.—Corruption, Vol. III. Page 25.	2
So the struck eagle,…. View’d his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing’d the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs’d the pinion which impelled the steel. Byron.—English Bards, etc. (On Kirke White.)	3