 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...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 43by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Charles Thomas Browne - 1854 - 356 pages
...heart. Keen were his pangs, but 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."* 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 pages
...feel, HP nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the «ame plumage that had warmed his neet Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say, in these enlighten'd days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That strain'd invention, ever on the... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...tVaughan. Keen were his pangs, 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 bleeding breast!" Waller's stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows : That eagle's fate and mine are... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...: Keen were his pangs, 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 bleeding breast !" Waller's stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows : " That eagle's fate and mine... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...tVtughan. Keen were his pangs, 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 bleeding breast!" Waller's stanza which expresses a similar sentiment, is as follows: That eagle's fate and mine are... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...! Keen were his pangs, 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 bleeding breast." BYRON, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.* " And the duped people hourly doomed to pay The sums that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...were his pangs, but keener far to feel lie nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the «uno plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." 41. THE AMERICAN rX 1-Ki'. i M ! > T OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. Edward Everitt. going on, far from foreign... | |
 | 1859 - 778 pages
...heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, Whilst the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." I have thus endeavored to present to you, in the short but brilliant career of this young and wonderful... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...; Keen were his pangs, but 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. BYRON. ODE ON A GEECIAN UEN. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...; Keen were his pangs, but 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. ODE ON A GEECIAN UEN. BYRON. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye... | |
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