| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 páginas
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, (2) Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him 1 From a Tartar's... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1835 - 472 páginas
...the gaspings of an audible fear; the_long shriek, and the last groans of the flying crowds — " I saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival." And I rose up, and walked forth into the places of desolation and death ; and there, the young and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 páginas
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clanked, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark zt him! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh... | |
| Frederick Freeman - 1836 - 380 páginas
...the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the deod their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb — They were too busy to bark at him, From a Tartar's skull they had stript the flesh, As ye pull the fig when the fruit is fresh. The scalps were in the wild dog's maw,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 páginas
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone belovr Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, (3) Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him! From a Tartar's... | |
| Frederick Freeman - 1837 - 364 páginas
...of these animals, when they have once acquired a fondness for human flesh : " He saw the lean tings beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb— They were too busy to bark at him, From a Tartar's skull they had stript the flesh,... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clanked, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er... | |
| The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 páginas
...reminding us of that reached by Byron in that well-known passage in the ' Siege of Corinth,' when— " He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling, over darkness and limb"— —— with as sudden a transition from the hideous to the ludicrous as... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 páginas
...soul. How awfully horrific has Byron, in his " Siege of Corinth," described the appalling scene — " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...the dead their carnival ; Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb, They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh,... | |
| Natural history - 1840 - 180 páginas
...picture of a scene, painted from the observation of a poet during a residence in Greece and Turkey : — "He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er...busy to bark at him : From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the skin when the fruit is fresh." It was probably owing to its habits... | |
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