 By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling...  Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin - Pàgina 62per Poetry - 1804Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1831 - 1070 pàgines
...presumption in any man, though beautiful as Moore thought Byron, to attempt it. If so, then him The " Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave, • Burning for blood, bony and gaunt and grim." The first fifteen lines are equal to any thing in the whole range of Eng.lish descriptive poetry; but... | |
 | 1853 - 542 pàgines
...escaped the utter annihilation which befel his more formidable cousin, the wolf — " Cruel as deatb, and hungry as the grave, Burning for blood— bony, and gaunt, and grim !" it was, certes, owing to no feeling of more regard m his behalf, but only to the less dread, or... | |
 | Lewis Lloyd - 1831 - 472 pàgines
...Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out, stupendous, into distant lands, Cruel as death, arid hungry as the grave, Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim, Assembling wolves in raging troops descend, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow : — All... | |
 | 1833 - 776 pàgines
...mountains, which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands, Cruel as death! and hungry as the grave! Burning for blood! bony, and gaunt, and grim! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 436 pàgines
...mountains, which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands, Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend, And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | 1834 - 306 pàgines
...shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands, Cruel as death 1 and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pàgines
...Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands ; * The Gaol Committee, in the year 1729. Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pàgines
...mountains, which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees Branch out stupendous into distant lands ; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave, Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim, Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | James Hamilton Fennell - 1841 - 610 pàgines
...mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Appenine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands, Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend, And, pouring o'er the country, hear along, Keen as the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pàgines
...much at school, know Thomson's description of the wolves among the Alps, Apennines, and Pyrenees, " Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave, Burning for blood, bony and gaunt and grim." The first fifteen lines are equal to any thing in the whole range of English descriptive poetry ; but... | |
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