As it slipped through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. Marriage - Página 387por Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 434 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...admit of its insertion. We now come-to a part of the poem which we sincerely wish to see expunged. " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. And Alp... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 páginas
...ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; 414 And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull4, As it slipped through their jaws, when their edge...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who haid fallen for .that night's repast. 420... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 102 páginas
...From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; 414 And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull*,...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. 420 And... | |
| 1816 - 700 páginas
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, As itslipped through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. And Alp... | |
| 1816 - 700 páginas
...fig when its fruit'is fresh; 1 • And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, As itslipped through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, So well had they broken a lingering fast When they scarce could rise from the spot where theyfed; And... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 páginas
...ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; 414 And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull4, As it slipped through their jaws, ' when their edge...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast 4 19 With those who had fallen for that night's repast.... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 páginas
...is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, As it slipped through their j aws when their edge grew dull; As they lazily mumbled...they fed." " Now, to enter into the conceptions of a dog—to embody one's-self, as it were, in the person of a brute—to sympathize in its feelings—to... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 páginas
...fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,(4) As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. And Alp... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 294 páginas
...when its fruit is fresh; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, <« 415 As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As...they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well -had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. 420 And... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 páginas
...tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, * As it slipped through their jaws when their edge grevv dul^ As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they feel ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.... | |
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