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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 244 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837
...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 - 359 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
...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...carcass and limb ; They were too 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... | |
 | The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838
...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
...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, Quadrupeds - 1840
...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...carcass and limb; They were too 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."... | |
 | James Rennie - 1829
...but somewhat revolting description of Lord Byron refers, in the poem of the Siege of Corinth : " — 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 stript the flesh,... | |
 | 1841
...by Byron. " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er tbe dead their carnival. Gorgling and growling o'er carcass and limb, — They were too busy to bark at him. And their white tusks crunched on the whiter skull, As it slipp'd from their teeth when their edge... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 935 páginas
...of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And be 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... | |
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