 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 1873 - 380 pages
...poverty eould not impair, and whieh dealh itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound In sueh beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest...regret that so short a period was allotted to talents, whieh would have dignified even the saered funetions he was destined to assume. — [In a letter to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death Itself destroyed rather than subdued. eorge Gordon Byron Byron л period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...The following verse from Byron closed the article : "As the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wingjd the shaft that quivered in his heart, Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 656 pages
...breath, and who learned by her teachings to be strong. 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 «inged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 5 Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed... | |
 | Juan Bautista Alberdi - Industrialists - 1877 - 292 pages
...of the premature death of Henry Kirke White: — " ' So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatai dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to... | |
 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than sutdual His poems abound in such beanties as most impress the reader with the liveliest regret that...a period was allotted to talents, which would have dignif.ed e«n the sacred functions he was destined to assume. — [In a letter to Mr. Dallas, in I'll,... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 606 pages
...and which death itself destroyed «rather than subdued. His poems alxmnd in such beauties as might impress the reader with the liveliest regret that...was allotted to talents which would have dignified the sacred functions he was destined to assume.' Southey, the literary executor of this most amiable... | |
 | 1880 - 68 pages
...mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress...the reader with the liveliest regret that so short a periodwas allotted to talents, which wtfuld have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 644 pages
...impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as might impress the reader with the liveliest regret that so short a period waallotted to talents which would have dignified the sacred functions he was destined to assume.' Byron... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1881 - 520 pages
...mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress...even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were... | |
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Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than sub dued. 
