 NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible...  Littell's Living Age - Página 2351868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lewis Grout - 1864 - 416 páginas
...hour, they were glad to turn back, leaving the king's forces in possession of a hardly earned victory. "Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions." While the Zulu is occupied with the Boer in the upper part of the District, a few Englishmen at the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 páginas
...Kwasind ! " cried they ; " that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood 1 " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. DD So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 488 páginas
...Kwasind ! " cried they ; " that is Kwasind 1 He is gathering in his fire-wood 1 " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the airtis dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 páginas
...spread, and the turf ever hallowed which pillowed his head. D. GARRICK 1264 DISASTERS COME NOT SINGLY NEVER stoops the soaring vulture on his quarry in...but another vulture watching from his high aerial look out, sees the downward plunge and follows ; and a third pursues the second, coming from the invisible... | |
 | Andrew Leith Adams - 1867 - 354 páginas
...newly-killed bear. This subject is beautifully described by Longfellow in his " Song of Hiawatha,"— " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...bison, But another vulture watching, From his high ae'riel look-out, Sees the downward plunge and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 312 páginas
...will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow of birds of prey, in his song of Hiawatha:— "Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture Till the air is dark with pinions." SIN -Punishment ofWHAT a diabolical invention was the " Virgin's kiss," once used by the fathers of... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 294 páginas
...will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow of birds of prey, in his song of Hiawatha : — "Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture Till the air is dark with pinions." SIN— Punishment ofWHAT a diabolical invention was the " Virgin's kiss/' once used by the fathers... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 páginas
...character. " In truth, his misfortunes had now cut to the quick." How runs the song of Hiawatha ? 1 ' Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 páginas
...Therefore you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure, when you walk or tread. — BACON. 65. Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick and wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 páginas
...quarry4 in the desert, On the sick and wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial6 look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ;...third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether,6 First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.7 So disasters come not... | |
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