...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. The mere length of the simile gives us time to feel the unreality of the comparison between the powers...

...keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd the shore he was a wanderer; m There was a mass of many images Crowded like waves up eiilighten'd days, 8« That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd invention, ever...

...keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd compels the powers of air. cx Italia ! too, Italia ! looking on thee, Full ia these enlighten'd days, 849 That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd invention,...

...who say, in these enlighten'd days, 849 That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd 'T is true, that all who rhyme — nay, all who write, Shrink from that fatal word to genius — trite;...

...who say, in these enlighteu'd days, 8^ That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd hese things Have I partaken; and of all these things, 150 One were T is true, that all who rhyme — nay, all who write, Shrink from that fatal word to genius — trite;...

...heart. 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 810. Toisoíoíf] Not the Olympian Gods, importing the material from Spain, but the Bird-gods, as we...

...heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While by their resemblance to the Highlanders oi Scotland,...white; the spare, active form; their dialect, Celti 850 Alone impels the modern Bard to sing: matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair,...

...heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. And the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop from his bleeding breast.' "* Kentucky's first Cecil Rhodes scholar to Oxford University, Mr. Clarke...

...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. IX. There is a double beauty in metaphors that are not only metaphors but, at the same time, allusions....

...; 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. ' A little incident which occurred on the declaration of the Poll shows how unprepared were the public...