Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; 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... Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Side 38af Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 sider
...scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 sider
...dark scorpion gathers death around: Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 sider
...Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Vot. XXX. E "Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And...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 sider
...scorpion gathers death around : Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...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 sider
...scorpion gathers death around ; 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 stilt than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the... | |
| Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 sider
...but to the wilds of America ; " 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 murd'rous still than they ;" &c. &c. Can we possibly allow this to pass for a fair description of the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 3K And savage men more murd'rous an j(` ? &y C m}D &| {4 y | o~ p yɈ w ~O v ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 sider
...scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...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... | |
| 1825 - 398 sider
...scorpion gathers death around, — Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, — Where crouching tigers...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sider
...scorpionjgathers death around ; 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 murd'rous still than they : While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape... | |
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