 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 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, (2) Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him 1 From... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1835 - 472 pages
...the gaspings of an audible fear; the_long shriek, and the last groans of the flying crowds — " I saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival." And I rose up, and walked forth into the places of desolation and death ; and there, the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...words of the sentinel, 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 , Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark zt him! From a Tartar's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone belovr 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, (3) Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him! From a... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...words of the sentinel, 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, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's... | |
 | The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 pages
...reminding us of that reached by Byron in that well-known passage in the ' Siege of Corinth,' when— " He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling, over darkness and limb"— —— with as sudden a transition from... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...soul. How awfully horrific has Byron, in his " Siege of Corinth," described the appalling scene — " 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... | |
 | James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1829 - 436 pages
...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 Tartar's... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...picture of a scene, painted from the observation of a poet during a residence in Greece and Turkey : — "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 - 1841 - 998 pages
...of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And be my thought! with whom I traverse earth, Invisible but gazin carnival, (3) Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From... | |
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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! 
