Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey. And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls... Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Página 38de Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 355 And savage men, more murderous still than they ; While...scene ; The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, 360 The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered harmless thefts of love. Good Heaven... | |
| Edward Everett - 1853 - 40 páginas
...scorpion gathers death around, — Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, — Where crouching tigers...flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies." In this rather uninviting sketch, it must be confessed that it is not easy to recognize the natural... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 páginas
...men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from...scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, ' To savage beasts who on the weaker prey, Or human savages more wild than they! ' Sir W. Temple, p.... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That called... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 páginas
...scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers' wait...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, Tliat only shelter'd thefts of harmless... | |
| Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 páginas
...by a brief inventory that recapitulates the sights and sounds previously evoked in greater detail: The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. . . . The "pictured scene" of the villagers' departure for foreign... | |
| D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 páginas
...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. I6 Gary ignores the items in this description that he probably assumed to be absent from Lower Canada... | |
| H. Daniel Peck - 1992 - 166 páginas
...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landschape with the skies.... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily on Buffon. Whereas... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 páginas
...scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. 29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with a fascinated... | |
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