So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to 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... Disraeli's Works - Page 205de Isaac Disraeli - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 pages
...Which 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...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast!" Of the work itself, which comprises a series of Tales, founded on some Romantic occurrences in every... | |
| American education society - 1830 - 304 pages
...in his heart : " Keen were his pangs, hut keener far to feel " He nurs'd the pinion which impcll'd the steel ; " While the same plumage that had warm'd...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.'' The loss which, in this manner, has so often withered the joys of parents and instructers, and covered... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...quiver'd 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 warm'd...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast (a) Henry Kirko White died it Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1830 - 328 pages
...even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had wann'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. SONNET ON HENRY KIRKE WHITE. BY CAPEL... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...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...same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life- drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say, in these enlighten'd days, That splendid lies... | |
| 1831 - 740 pages
...quiver'd 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 warm'd...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." ("English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines Ah miserum juvenem ! dum vita in vere rubebat, Tentabatque... | |
| 1831 - 426 pages
...dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver-d in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feei He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel. While the same plumage that had waroi'd bis nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be who say, in these enlighten'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 350 pages
...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...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. (') There be, who say, in these enlighten'd days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That... | |
| 1832 - 728 pages
...shaft that quiver'd in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'dthe pinion that impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, [breast. Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding Yet Byron's lines are in no danger of being criticised... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 370 pages
...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 impell'd the steel ; While the same...Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.' " The loss which in this manner has so often withered the joys of parents and instructors, and covered... | |
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