 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 468 pages
...words of the sentinel, 406 As his measured step on the stone below Clanked, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival. 410 Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...exclamation, ' Out upon time,' and the tripping versification, render the whole passage almost burlesque. And he saw the lean dogs, beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 1016 pages
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1826 - 466 pages
...words of the sentinel, •As his measured step ou the stoue below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to hark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | 1826 - 622 pages
...description? in the one we see the gallantry of war, in the other the horrors of a field of carnage : — And he saw the lean dogs, beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...exclamation, " Out upon time," and the tripping versification, render the whole passage almost burlesque. And he saw the lean dogs, beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | Fiction - 1827 - 446 pages
...to find the secret imperfections of our mind. It is therefore in his portraiture of the canine race, that the illustrious author has so far excelled all...lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival ; Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb, They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 348 pages
...the dead, owes its origin to this incident of the dogs and the body under the walls of the seraglio. And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival. Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb, They were too busy to bark at him. From a Tartar's... | |
 | Horse racing - 1830 - 714 pages
...powerful, but somewhat revolting description of Lord Byron refers, in the poem of the Siege of Corinth. " he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb — They were too busy to bark at him. From a... | |
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And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him! 
