Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that... English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satirevon George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 85 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Kirke White - 1840 - 330 Seiten
...allotted to talents, which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 Seiten
...clouds to БОШ* again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft thut quiver'd in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel Пе nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank... | |
| 1841 - 640 Seiten
...celebrated lines in which she will for ever record the memory of such a parricidal treason : " So the strnck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling...pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop from... | |
| Douglas Allport - 1841 - 314 Seiten
...years once, and that in the new of the moon about Christmas, when the grounds be most barren." c " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, " No...the fatal dart, " And winged the shaft that quivered iu his heart." IMITATED. So the dull school-boy, mad with rage and pain, Knows his own coppers bought... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 Seiten
...eagle's fate and mine are one. Which on the shaft that made him die, E*pird a feather of liis own, 63: Marino Palien, u Ada, all bat the mouth, is the picture of her mother impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1842 - 374 Seiten
...neglecting to take seasonable and appropriate exercise, and thus fell a prey to disease and death. ' So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nurs'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 Seiten
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
| Pye Henry Chavasse - 1843 - 320 Seiten
...gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed... | |
| 1843 - 450 Seiten
...Waller, has expressed the case of over application to a d.trliug pursuit destroying itsposssssor: — " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, ~ No...through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own pinion ou the fatal dart, And wiuged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 Seiten
...elouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pimon which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd hv nest. Drank the last life-drop... | |
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