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... Anecdotes of Public Men - Página 12por John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George John Whyte-Melville - 1890 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1890 - 420 páginas
...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."... | |
| 1890 - 932 páginas
...; 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,'... | |
| United States - 1891 - 82 páginas
...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 that impelled the steel: While the same plumage that had wanned his nest Drank the last life-drop of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 páginas
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd I • XXVIII. 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... | |
| 1891 - 556 páginas
...Lo the struck 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... | |
| United States - 1891 - 84 páginas
...quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, hut 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 his bleeding breast. I know that I voice, Mr. Speaker, the feeling of every one here who... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 páginas
...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 piniou which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Urank the last life-drop... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 páginas
...No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart / And winged ise Bili Chatham amplified Coke in this splendid fashion: "The poorest man m feet He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 páginas
...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...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... | |
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