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
| Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...)Vhen 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 green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, t when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar....antidote, are both before me : This in a moment br iu whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Far different these... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1880 - 84 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... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous 4 grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 pages
...downward ray, ^And fiercely shed intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to ering, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous...snake; Where crouching tigers* wait their hapless prey, x And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...slug, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxnrian ce crowned, only God ; — there is no God beside ! Being above...with thyself alone ; Embracing all — supporting murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flics, Mingling the ravaged landscape... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pages
...idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel, arid 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 ra^i^sd landscape with the skies; — Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1882 - 236 pages
...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; 350 Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, 360 344. Altama — eigentlich Altamahn oder Alatamaha, Flufs in Georgien, im... | |
| William Swinton - 1882 - 686 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... | |
| James O'Shea - 1902 - 220 pages
...intolerable day — Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy cluster cling — Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they." Felix and his party left New York on the 2oth of May, and the weather was warm enough in the various... | |
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