 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 Works of Lord Byron - Page 222by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 1886 - 548 pages
...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 impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. LORD... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1871 - 550 pages
...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 impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen we,e 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.... | |
 | 1890 - 932 pages
...; and a propos of the actual Chancellor of the Exchequer, an apt quotation was ma'de — " Keen are his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." His forensic success was followed by his work, ' Twenty Years of Financial Policy,' into the writing... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1890 - 420 pages
...the Opposition bench." Some one made the neat quotation, with regard to Mr Gladstone — " Keen are his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." But, in spite of tradition, Mr Gladstone had not done very much for " the pinion." It had written his... | |
 | Florida Medical Association - 1890 - 974 pages
...soar again, Viewed his own feather in the fatal dart And winged that shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel." BG ABERXETHY, MD, CEREBRAL SURGERY. During the last few years the progress... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1890 - 408 pages
...Sovereign, and deceived by his peers, was not poured into it by the hand of the woman ho had adored ? Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel; And the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Now drank the life-drops from... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...eagle ... View'd his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd In his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. Byron. EAR. Make not my ear a stranger to thy thoughts. Addison. One ear heard it, and at the other... | |
 | Church congress - 1891 - 438 pages
...reconciled. Like the eagle, who saw in the arrow which struck him a feather from his wing — "Keen were the pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." There is only one road, long and steep, to reunion ; there is only one chart which can guide us to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : A single star is at her side, and reigns With her o'er half the lovely impelid the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
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