 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
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1909 - 292 pages
...admiration of the old Greeks in art, politics, and literature was a sort of classical justification 1 " Keen were his pangs but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel" is straight from ^Eschylus. for the Romanticists who had sprung from the reaction against the false... | |
 | Sir Wilfrid Lawson - 1909 - 432 pages
...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. '... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1910 - 1012 pages
...sooner than say " Bury the great duke with a nation's lamentation." It is not probable that Byron's " Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel " is " straight from Aeschylus ". It is more likely that it is straight from Waller, or from any one... | |
 | 1910 - 650 pages
...shall be glad to discover his authority. There are some lines of Byron's somewhat like the above : — Keen were his pangs : but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. KJ FYNMORE. Sandgate. RICHARD HALL GOWER of Ipswich died in 1833, leaving two sons, namely, Richard... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 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 that impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life drop of... | |
 | William H. Wallace - 1914 - 368 pages
...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 that impelled the steel, And the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life drop from... | |
 | John Anderson Richardson - 1914 - 616 pages
...his own feathers in the fatal dart And winged shaft that quivered in his heart, Keen was his pang, 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 from his bleeding breast."... | |
 | Frederick Chamberlin - 1921 - 400 pages
...the Puritan and Protestant had at Court. If Leicester could have known this, surely we might say : " Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel." To the ample evidence as to Leicester's true position set forth in the coming volume, I shall now add... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1825 - 456 pages
...soar again, 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 impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his... | |
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