 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
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 pàgines
...melancholy howls of the gathering marauders, and how grateful the shelter of the forrester's grange. "Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and griin ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend, And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pàgines
...mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennines, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands,— Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave! Burning for blood 1 bony, and gaunt, and grim !— Assembling wolves in ranging troops descend, And, pouring o'er the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 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... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pàgines
...mountains which the shimng 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, bear along, F^en as the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pàgines
...mountains, where the shining Alps, And snowy 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pàgines
...mountains, where the shining Alps, And snowy 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... | |
 | Richard Brooke - 1857 - 374 pàgines
...lyonesse \id." CHAPTER XIV. PART II. ON THE PROBABLE PERIOD OF THE EXTINCTION OF WOLVES IN ENGLAND. 1 " Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave! Burning for blood! bony and gaunt, and grim! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend j And pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 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 ! " &c. The first fifteen lines are equal to anything in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 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 ! " &c. The first fifteen lines are equal to anything in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 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 ! " &c. The first fifteen lines are equal to anything in the whole range of English descriptive poetry... | |
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