...overnor Trumbull's description of the tarring and feathering of his hero, MacFingal, when, after the application of the melted tar, the feather-bed was ripped open and shaken over him, until Not Maia 's son with wings for ears Such plumes about his visage wears, Nor Milton's six-wing'd angel gathers Such superfluity of feathers, and I confess I was quite unwilling to undergo a martyrdom which...