 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...too much indulged tliy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: 820 x * * HENRY KIRKE WHITE died at Cambridge in October 1806, in consequence of too much exertion... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...too much indnlg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid I her low : So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...indulg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gaTe the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...impelled to fatality in consequence of being cultivated too seduously; hence, he says, — " Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low." Now, you will at once perceive that there is no natural connexion between any one of these similies... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...literary theft, as ever was committed by any author. Compare his lines with those of Waller. BYRON. 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, &c. WALLER.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 88 pages
...•She sowed the seeds, hut Death has reaped the fruit, 1 was thine own genius gave the final hlow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struek eagle stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped 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, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his men feather on the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...who fell a victim to his too ardent pursuit of science, with the following very striking simile: " 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...much indulged thy fond pursuit , She sowed the seeds , but death has reaped the fruit. 8c '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 , * HEHRT KIRKB WHITE died... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...sow'd the seeds, but Death has reap'd the fruit. Twas thine own genius gave the final blow And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck...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... | |
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Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd 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, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that... 
