 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...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 12by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Wilson Townsend - Lawyers - 1907 - 336 pages
...them. " ' 'Twas his own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid him low. So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. And the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop from his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, 840 No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...fruit. '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...but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 436 pages
...anger. More especially in debates on financial questions he resented Northcote's criticisms. Keen are his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. In the Parliament of 1874, in fuller degree in that of 1880, there was no man on... | |
 | Sir Wilfrid Lawson - Great Britain - 1909 - 432 pages
...— though in applying it to myself the reader had better substitute Crow or Jackdaw for Eagle. ' So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...fruit. '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...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life -drop of his... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1909 - 1112 pages
...Byron has it, in "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in the lines commemorative of Kirke White : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - Civilization - 1909 - 292 pages
...admiration of the old Greeks in art, politics, and literature was a sort of classical justification 1 " Keen were his pangs but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel" is straight from ^Eschylus. for the Romanticists who had sprung from the reaction... | |
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