 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
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pàgines
...mountains, which the shining Alps, And wavy Afwnnine. and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant st attendant on thy praise : From hence the rudiments of art began ; A coal, or chalk, first i ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And, pouring o'er the country, bear alonir. Keen ns... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...horrid mountains, which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous— 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... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pàgines
...been 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," <tc. The first fifteen lines are equal to any thing in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...much at school, know Thomson's description of the wolves among the Alps, Apennines, and Pyrenees, 1 Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood, bony and gaunt and grim,' Ac. The first fifteen lines are equal to any thing in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...at school, know Thomson's description of the wolves among the Alps, Apennines, and Pyrenees, ' Crnel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood, bony and gaunt and grim,' &c. The first fifteen lines are equal to any thing in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pàgines
...such monsters from The shining Alps, ' . And wavy Appennines, and Pyrenees, By wintry famine roused : 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... | |
 | T B. M - 1844 - 274 pàgines
...skin. The poet Thomson has, in a few words, drawn a just picture of this savage creature : — " Cniel as death, and hungry as the grave ; Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim ! " In countries where Wolves are numerous, whole droves flock down from the mountains, or out of the... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...and have perished. Thomson says, that in winter, from the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Apennines, " Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave, Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim, * Canis lupus. 56 ORDER III. WOLF. Assembling wolves, in raging troops descend. * * * They fasten on... | |
 | E. Whimper - 1845 - 204 pàgines
...a dangerous and undaunted foe ; but after his appetite is appeased, he will seldom face an enemy. " Cruel as death ! and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim." The wolf is found in almost all countries except the British Islands, and is said to live to the age... | |
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