...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...

...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...

...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...

...— 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...sooner than say " Bury the great duke with a nation's lamentation." It is not probable that Byron's " Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel " is " straight from Aeschylus ". It is more likely that it is straight from Waller,...