 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...Song " MtJ Dear and only Looe." I '11 make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword. lb'd. * So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his hpart. Bvr.ox. fjnylish Btmls. Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 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. (On Kirkc Whitt.} The thorns which... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1867 - 450 Seiten
...their last earthly meditations ty have been to those of the eagle in the noble passage of Byron : " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, . Views hia own feather on the fatal dart Which winged the shaft that quivers in his heart ; Keen are... | |
 | 1868 - 848 Seiten
...reaped ihe fruit. 'Twas thy own Genius gave the fatal blow, And helped to plant the wound that Inid thee low. So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain,...the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered on his heart! Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, Jfe nursed the pinion which impelled the... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 Seiten
...for his arms an eagle struck through the heart with his own feathers (propriis configimur aiis). " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." BYRON: English Bardt and Scotch Reviewers. Voltaire quoted a saying of Julian, in a letter to Frederick,... | |
 | W. E. Alexander - 1882 - 766 Seiten
...the fruit, Twas thine own genius gave the final blow. And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low; So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,...own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft which quivered in his heart; Keen werr; his pangs, but keener far to feel. He nursed the pinion which... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...; That was the song, — the song for me! d. WOEDSWOBTH.— 0 Nightingale ! Thou Surely Art. EAGLE. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. e. BYBON — English Thirds and Scotch Reviewers. Line... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 Seiten
...song, — the song for me! if. WOBDBWOBXH.— 0 Nightingale! Thou Surely Art. EAGLE. So the strnck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. e. BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Hf viewers. Line... | |
 | John Todd - 1882 - 996 Seiten
...clouds to soar again, ViewM 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, lie nursed the pinion which impcll'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 Seiten
...eagle, loves to soare, Though it can never to the highest see. — Davenant: Dying Christian. (156) So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel 1 Spring. He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, \Vhile the same plumage that had warm'd his... | |
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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 wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. 
