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" 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 9
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pages
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. by B. Corney

Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...— Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling — 35° Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd,...savage men more murderous still than they — While of1 in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. \ Far different...
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Travels and Adventures in South and Central America: First Series: Life in ...

Ramón Páez - 1868 - 566 pages
...nature," and that the inhabitants themselves are no better off than " the cattle of the plains," " Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they." — Tlie Deaerted Village. These things are only found in the depths of the primevai forest, or amidst...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 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...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested gre:.-n, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless...
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The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith, and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their wo. Far different there from all that charm'd before,...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter' d thefts of harmless...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, d the cavalcade ; Processions formed for piety and...satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim, represt by long then they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado Hies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies....
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The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems ..., Volume 51

Oliver Goldsmith - 1871 - 434 pages
...intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling j Those poisonous fields, with rank luxuriance crown'd,...of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait theii1 hapless prey, And savage men hlore murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...Altama1 murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that chann'd before, The various terrors ot that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a...these from every former scene; The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where...from every former scene, — The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 280 pages
...— Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling — 35° Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd,...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. 66 Far different these from every former scene ; The cooling brook,...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous ightingale's complaint It dies upon her heart, As...love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. murd'rouB still than they; While oft in whirls the таЛ tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape...
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