| Anne Elizabeth Baker - English language - 1854 - 440 pages
...Magn. Lady." No sound but the wild wind, And the snow crunching under his feet. SOCIHEY'S " Thalaba." 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...space of yellow sand Between it and the greener land. SIEOE OF CORINTH. THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT. ALP 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... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...81. f A passage well illustrated by the terrible description in Byron's " Siege of Corinth :"— " 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... | |
| Society of Friends - 1856 - 590 pages
...holding high carnival amid these mangled human remains. Of all these horrors Kitto was a witness. "lie saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass nnd limb ; Thi'v were too busy to bark at him '. From a... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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... | |
| Issac Dowd Williamson - Natural history - 1858 - 172 pages
...sight observed in this city, that Lord Byron caught the idea of the lines in the Siege of Corinth : — "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 Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...Lord Byron, from a sight observed in this city, caught the idea of the lines in the Siege of Corinth : "And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival ; Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb, Thev were too busy to bark at him ! L_ From... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 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 - 1859 - 914 pages
...of the sentinel, AŤ his measured step on the stone below L'jnk'd, as he paced it to and fro ; lad he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, * ( -TTgiag and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! Ггот... | |
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