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 the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Page 9by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown' d, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown. Do thine, sweet AUBURN, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they : W hile oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Far different... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dan a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous stilt than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Th ose pois'nous nd gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults 3K And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling... | |
| 1825 - 398 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, "Where the dark scorpion gathers death around, —...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... | |
| 1826 - 300 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling, [crown'd, These pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance Where the dark scorpion gathers death around : Where...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Whore wild A ltama murmurs to their wo. Far different there from all that charm'd before,...they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Ming'1ing the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...matted woods, where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murd'rons still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...tigers wait their hapless prey. And savage men, more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown. Do thine, sweet AUBURN, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes...skies. Far different these from every former scene, The coohju| brook, the grassy vested green, The bre^f covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd... | |
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