 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
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1825 - 456 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...fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in hie heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 1118 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 through rolling clouds to soar againt Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart :... | |
 | John Marvin Hunter, George Washington Saunders - Cattle trade - 1925 - 1068 pages
...two exercises caused an abscess to form on his liver which called him hence in 1876. "So struck the eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Views his own feather upon the fatal dart That winged the shaft that quivered to his heart." Too oft,... | |
 | Albert Brecknock - Poets, English - 1926 - 344 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...through rolling clouds to soar again. Viewed his own feathers on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs,... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 422 pages
...well interpreted Judge Story's position in the lines : "So the struck eagle stretched upon the plane, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, That helped to wing the shaft that quivered in his heart." III. The argument from section 913, et scq.,... | |
 | L. White Busbey - United States - 1927 - 462 pages
...his political opponents, but from his misguided friends, and I have never forgotten his quotation: So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Views his own feather on the fatal dart, That winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. After the... | |
 | United States - 1928 - 858 pages
...his former argument irresistible Byron has well interpreted Judge Story's position in the lines: So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart That helped to wing the shaft that quivered in his heart. III The argument from section 913, et seq.,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that qniver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far...impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be who say, in these enlighten'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; 845 Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed...impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. 1 . Mr Gifford promised publicly that... | |
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