 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
 | Cambridge (Mass.) - 1906 - 116 pages
...shape in which his conception has been put by another and greater mind. Thus Byron's grand lines — " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; " have their plagiaristic or imitative echo in Moore's feebler verse — " They, Like a young eagle,... | |
 | Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers - 1906 - 422 pages
...тгоХЛа \ртц1ата та т Ala^ívov у' âVai/та ; ITEI. /cat Хшегто!» (tkv ovv Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged...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... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - Pacific States - 1906 - 998 pages
...our Presidents shows that we have not escaped the curse of Cain. America, like the struck eagle which "Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart; And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." now realizes what crimes are committed in the name of Liberty. Unquestionably there is an army of discontent... | |
 | John Wilson Townsend - Lawyers - 1907 - 336 pages
...them. " ' 'Twas his own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid him low. So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. And the same plumage that had... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, 840 No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed...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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...fruit. '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...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...fruit. '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...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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 pages
...room for the eagle only, and he retains his place on the lecturns in Catholic and Anglican churches. 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... | |
 | Sir Wilfrid Lawson - Great Britain - 1909 - 432 pages
...Eagle — though in applying it to myself the reader had better substitute Crow or Jackdaw for Eagle. ' 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... | |
 | Emily Post - 1910 - 332 pages
...TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1932 L COPYRIGHTED, 1910, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY Published, October, 1910 ' So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." — Byron.... | |
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