Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls... The Poetical Works of John Milton ... - Page 9by John Milton - 1824 - 131 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Th ose pois'nous nd gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults 3K And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the... | |
| United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...from all that charmed before, The various terrors of that horrid shore : Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, "Where the dark scorpion gathers death around, — Where, at each step, the stranger fears... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd,' Where the dark scorpionjgathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears...tigers wait their hapless prey ; And savage men, more murd'rous still than they : While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...to sin" But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous h'eldswith rank luxunancecrown'i) Where the dark scorpion gathers death around : Where...snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prev, And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling, [crown'd, These pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance Where the dark scorpion gathers death around : Where...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they : While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the... | |
| Theology - 1822 - 688 pages
...woods, where birds forget to sing, " But silent bats, in drowsy clusters cling, " Those |>oisonous fields, with rank luxuriance crown'd, " Where the...rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, "Where crouching tygers wait their hapI ess prey, " And savage men, more murderous still than they, "While oft in whirls... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...from all that charmed before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart 830 still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Ming'1ing the ravag'd landscape with the... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...matted woods, where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murd'rons still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... | |
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