 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
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...jEsop. 48. Eagle anil the Arrow. (See also BYRON, MOORE, WALLER, also PHILLIPS under RELIGION) 20 So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. BYRON — English Bards ami Scotch Reviewers. L. 826.... | |
 | Robert Mellors - Biography - 1924 - 368 pages
...completed the physical injury which had begun in earlier years, uses a beautiful figure of him: — " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart." His poems were collected, and edited by Southey, the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Macbetlt. Aa L Se. 7. SHAKESPEARE. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more...dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Lnzliih Bards and Scotch Kmien.tr s. BYRON. DESPAIR. Talk not of comfort ; 't is for lighter ills :... | |
 | 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... | |
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