 | J. M. Morphis - 1875 - 634 pages
...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. " The country near Jefferson abounds in iron ore of the finest quality, of which very fine stoves and... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...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.1 Line 826. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires... | |
 | Linton Stephens - 1877 - 462 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nur^'d the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the... | |
 | James D. Waddell - 1877 - 460 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered 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 the... | |
 | 1877 - 494 pages
...eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouda to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his panga, but keener far to feel He nursed the piaiou which impelled the iteel; While the same plumage... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 pages
...eagle stretch'd upon the plain No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own plumage on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." — Byron. So connects this sentence with the one before it. " I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...EAOLE, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his owu feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. BYRON, English Bards. Ear. — One EARE it heard, at the other out it went. CHAUCER, Trottus and Creseide.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And. wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel. Byron, English Bards. (On Kirke White.) Tho thorns which... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1881 - 58 pages
...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." In the death of Douglas the nation lost one of its greatest and most patriotic men. It is, however,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 616 pages
...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 Ho nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank... | |
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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, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that... 
