 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
 | Emily Post - 1910 - 332 pages
...So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." — Byron. 00 & X THE EAGLE'S FEATHER CHAPTER I IT was in Paris — a particularly warm afternoon in... | |
 | Emily Post - 1910 - 332 pages
...DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY" 1910 COPYRIGHTED, 1910, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY Published, October, 1910 ' So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." — Byron.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 650 pages
...shall be glad to discover his authority. There are some lines of Byron's somewhat like the above : — Keen were his pangs : but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. KJ FYNMORE. Sandgate. RICHARD HALL GOWER of Ipswich died in 1833, leaving two sons,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...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. 2434 Byron : English Bards. Line 828 The thorns which I... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - Judges - 1914 - 426 pages
...and are the most incurable of all. Another poet has expressed the thought better than I can do : "So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...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 of... | |
 | William H. Wallace - Lawyers - 1914 - 368 pages
...eagle, struck down in his flight for prey, by the aid of a feather dropped from his own wing : — " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, And the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life drop from... | |
 | Mexican Bureau of Information, New York - Mexico - 1914 - 582 pages
..."Help Mexico, lest over her bloody grave are sown the dragons' teeth of our own destruction." -. " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." CHARLES SUMNER YOUNG. July Fourth, 1916. [ix] [FOREWORD] can soil? Yes. Perpetuate the spirit of '76,... | |
 | Charles Sumner Young - Mexico - 1916 - 70 pages
..."Help Mexico, lest over her bloody grave are sown the dragons' teeth of our own destruction." . " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." CHARLES SUMNER YOUNG. July Fourth, 1916. [ix] I- |- ii I - 1 hi iiS'UBLICS \NAHUAC CLUB: |pp*eare two... | |
 | Frederick Chamberlin - Queens - 1921 - 400 pages
...the Puritan and Protestant had at Court. If Leicester could have known this, surely we might say : " Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." To the ample evidence as to Leicester's true position set forth in the coming... | |
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