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" Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the Cameleon, who can... "
Annual Register of World Events - Page 221
1805
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 107-109

John Bell - English poetry - 1793 - 612 pages
...Sawney's breast. 1 Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, 155 Earth clad in russet scorn'd [he lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grashopper must die : Wo living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there But the chameleon, who can knst...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Farth, clad in russet, scorn'J el Johnson Bat the cameleon, who can fiast on air. VOL XIV. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew, No bee...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Fjrth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague...secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. N1 livine thnig, whate'er its food, feasts there, B'il th>- caméléon, who can feast on air. No birds,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...And, whilst she ¡cratch'd her lover into rest, ixmk pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'J the lively green. < The plague of locusts they secure defy, F"r in three hours a grasshopper...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 58

England - 1845 - 808 pages
...And, whilst she scratch 'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd, tho' hungry, on her Sawney's breast. " Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth,...defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die : No livmg thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except...
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Rob Roy. By the author of 'Waverley'.

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1818 - 364 pages
...I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my for tune to entertain. CHAPTER XIII. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green ; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo ; No streams,...
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Rob Roy, Volume 2

Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 342 pages
...I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my for tune to entertain. CHAPTER XIII. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green ; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo ; No streams,...
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A Voyage to Spitzbergen: Containing an Account of that Country, of the ...

John Laing (Surgeon) - Arctic regions - 1818 - 190 pages
...fertile. Neither tree nor shrub is to be seen, except the juniper and heath. Throughout the horrid wild no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. This want of trees and shrubs is the more remarkable, as in different parts of these Islands there...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth,...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the cameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew, No bee was known to hum,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into resty Sunk pleas'd, thoughhungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth,...russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts (hey secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whatever its food, feasts...
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