 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...  History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties, Iowa - Side 711av W. E. Alexander - 1882 - 738 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Aristophanes - 1852 - 152 sider
...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...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." 816, 817. SirapTi1v .... Kcipiav. It is not easy to give an English equivalent for the pun in this... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 sider
...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 impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1853 - 332 sider
...Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, Which winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." BYRON. APPENDIX. PAGE 140. From " Wanderings in Europe," by an American. At Rome, if any one dying... | |
 | 1854 - 576 sider
...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...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." 51. THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. Edward Everett. going on, far from foreign corruption,... | |
 | Charles Thomas Browne - 1854 - 356 sider
...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...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast."* In the October of 1806 Kirke White died ; destroyed by too close an application to his academical course,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 sider
...quivcr'd in his heart ; Keen were his panga, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd breast That should have won as haught * a crest As...waved along the line Of all these sovereign sires of There be, who say, in these cnlightcn'd days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That st.'iiiu'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 sider
...quiver'd in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say, in these cnlighten'd days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That strain'd... | |
 | John Todd - 1854 - 326 sider
...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 impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1873 - 452 sider
...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 impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-blood of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 sider
...View"d his own feather on the fatal dart, And wingM the shaft that quiver' d in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impcll'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
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