 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 quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 12by John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George John Whyte-Melville - Great Britain - 1890 - 408 pages
...Sovereign, and deceived by his peers, was not poured into it by the hand of the woman ho had adored ? Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel; And the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Now drank the life-drops from... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Nobility - 1890 - 420 pages
...the Opposition bench." Some one made the neat quotation, with regard to Mr Gladstone — " Keen are his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." But, in spite of tradition, Mr Gladstone had not done very much for " the pinion."... | |
 | England - 1890 - 932 pages
...; and a propos of the actual Chancellor of the Exchequer, an apt quotation was ma'de — " Keen are his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." His forensic success was followed by his work, ' Twenty Years of Financial Policy,'... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 82 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his...pangs, but keener far to feel. He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel: While the same plumage that had wanned his nest Drank the last life-drop of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd I • XXVIII. A single star is at her side, and reigns With her o'er half the lovely impelid the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...Lo the struck eagle ... View'd his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd In his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. Byron. EAR. Make not my ear a stranger to thy thoughts. Addison. One ear heard... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 84 pages
...quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, hut 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 his bleeding breast. I know that I voice, Mr. Speaker, the feeling of every one here who... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the piniou which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Urank the last life-drop... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart / And winged ise Bili Chatham amplified Coke in this splendid fashion: "The poorest man m feet He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar " again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his...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... | |
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