 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, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama (i) murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all...terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers (2) wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...steps they go, Where wild Altama W murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charnVd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ;...terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers W wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...And fiercely shed intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats^in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that churm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ;...flies Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies, Par different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy... | |
 | Georgia Historical Society - 1840 - 334 pages
...woe. Far different these from all that charmed before, The various terrors of that distant shore ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. Far different these from every former scene." General Oglethorpe, who went to England in the spring... | |
 | 1840 - 368 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 ravaged landscape... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...sing But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown' d, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 586 pages
...PIONEERS. ' THOSE matted woods where birds forget to ting, But silent bats lit drowsy clusters clinp j Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they : Far different these from eveiy former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy veiled green, The bn-ezy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...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...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 - 1845 - 276 pages
...horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day — 348 Those matted woods where birds forget to sing But...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they — 356 While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far... | |
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