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" 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 more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that... "
Family Records: Containing Memoirs of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B ... - Page 43
by Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 218 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 28

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1846 - 592 pages
...So the struck eaglo stretched upon the plaiu, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viow'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the...were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the piniou which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank tho last life-drop...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 28

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1846 - 882 pages
...through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft thet quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He uurscd the pinion which impell'd the steel, While the Bftme plumage that had warmed hie nest Drank...
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Poetic Pearls: With Notes and Illustrations

Richard S. Rhodes - 1885 - 444 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed 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 nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 5

1886 - 548 pages
...the 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,...impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. LORD BYRON. * Henry Kirke White died...
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The Higher Education, Issues 1-17

Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1871 - 550 pages
...the fruit. 'T was 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,...impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast ! " Our deceased friend remarked that...
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1

United States. War Department - 1887 - 920 pages
...problem in favor of human liberty; audit is importan t fur us to understand that the world so regards it. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed tho pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last...
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Poetic Pearls: With Notes and Illustrations

Richard Rhodes - 1887 - 426 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed 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, Ho nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank...
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The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a ...

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...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...
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Proceedings of the Florida Medical Association, Session of ...

Florida Medical Association - 1890 - 974 pages
...more thronL'h rolling' clouds to 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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 148

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...
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