 | English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...that Michael e of the most successful ;he Ottava Rima. The poem these extracts arc made is en1821. MS Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. — Eng . Bards. On KirkeJVhite. Waller. — That eagle's fate and mine are one. Who on the shaft that... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 pages
...fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, , And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No...again,. Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...on the death of Kirk White, as the ground of an illustration : — "So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged Hie shaft that quivered in his heart ! Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...gaTe the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...literary theft, as ever was committed by any author. Compare his lines with those of Waller. BYRON. So the struck Eagle stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again ; View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart, &c. WALLER.... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs but keener far to feel He nurs'd... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...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 men feather on the fatal dart, Arid winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...who fell a victim to his too ardent pursuit of science, with the following very striking simile: " So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Keen were... | |
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Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again... 
