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... The Birds of Aristophanes - Page 177by Aristophanes - 1864 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 426 pages
...fruit. 'T was thine own genius gave the fatal blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low ! So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart : •Campbell. t Vaughan. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled... | |
| James Clement Moffat - Aesthetics - 1856 - 300 pages
...White: " ' 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...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart," Many other such might be adduced, creditable alike to... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...fruit 'T was thine own genins gave the fatal blow, And helped to plant the wound that kid thee low ! So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clonds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered... | |
| William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high."—WALLER. " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...that quivered in his heart ! Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel: While the same plumage that had... | |
| Baptists - 1857 - 692 pages
...Scotchman : " Oh! what a noble heart was then undone, When science self destroyed her favorite son; So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." From the newspaper statements, it is evident that his strong constitution had been more completely... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...that the blow which destroyed her was inflicted by their own country. " Bo the struek Eagle, gtretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel lie nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the «uno plumage that... | |
| California - 1858 - 602 pages
...OP THE ODIOUS FORCE. "So the struck eagle, stretched upon the piafa, No more throngh rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal...shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1858 - 64 pages
...unsurpassable throughout the whole range of English Poetical literature, — I mean, of course, that of " the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again," with reference to the gifted and much lamented HENRY KTRKE WHITE, — is too intimately known, and... | |
| 1859 - 778 pages
...favorite son ! 'Twas his own genius gave the final blow, And served to plant the wound that laid him low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, Whilst the same plumage that had... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...dances such a way, No sun upon au Easter day Is half so flne a sight ! So the struck eagle, stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...that quivered in his heart: , Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel Ho nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, Whilo the snme plumage that had... | |
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