 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, W4iile the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say in these enlightened days That splendid lies are all the poets praise; 830 That strained... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810 - 110 pages
...allotted to talent?, which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. N. There be, who say in these enlightened days That splendid lies are all the poets praise ; 830 That... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810 - 106 pages
...heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel j While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be who say, in these enlightened 'days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That strained... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his men feather on the fatal dart, Arid winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast '. 9. — SAINT DENYS. St. Denys, or Dionysius, the Areopagite, was converted to Christianity by Saint... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...allotted to talents , which would have dignified even the sacred functions be was destined to assume. Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say in these enlightened days 83 i That splendid lies are all the Poet's praise ; That... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...the eagle, Lord Byron, in his lines on Kirke White, has taken the following exquisite simile : — So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of bis bleeding breast. The peregrine falcon (falcoperegrinus) frequents the rocky parts of our coasts,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...K.«ien. were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, IVhile the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say in these enlightened days That splendid lies are all the Poet's praise ; That strained... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1823 - 462 pages
...for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When science 'self destroyed her favourite son ! Yes ! she too much indulged thy fond pursuit,...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. * Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 608 pages
...that quivered in hits heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinioD that impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.' Happily, however, there is in the freedom of the Press itself, a redeeming power which is almost certain... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...too much indulged thy fond pursuit—- She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. "1'wiis thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be who say, in these enlightened days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That strained... | |
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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... 
