 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 - Pagina 38door Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pagina’s
...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 — 356 While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...hapless prey, And nvage men more murderous still than they ; Wnile oft in whirls the mad tornado flics, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies, Far...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pagina’s
...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 sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pagina’s
...here crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savnge men more murderous still than they; Wnile q< "Zln U ʩ ?k J" absurdities of others,...many of his own. But these dreary institutions wer grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pagina’s
...around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Alas! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That ialled them from their native walks away ; When the... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pagina’s
...wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 40 And savage men, more murderous still than they; While...The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven ! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That called... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pagina’s
...scorpion gathers death arouud : 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 grussy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pagina’s
...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... | |
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