 What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...  The African Repository - Page 451827Full view - About this book
 | William Collins - Middle East - 1925 - 54 pages
...to the Mourner Night, By Hunger rous'd, he fcours the groaning Plain, Gaunt Wolves and fullen Tygers in his Train : Before them Death with Shrieks directs...Fills the wild Yell, and leads them to their Prey. Sad 'was the Hour, &c. At that dead Hour the filent Afp fhall creep, If ought of reft I find, upon... | |
 | English essays - 1764 - 404 pages
...fcours the groaning plain. Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At... | |
 | William Collins, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1765 - 200 pages
...fcours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with (bricks directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their rfrey. This, amongft many other paffages to be mat with in. the writings of COIIINS, fhews that fcis... | |
 | Moses Mendez - English poetry - 1770 - 334 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and Jucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" . At... | |
 | English poetry - 1770 - 268 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 380 pages
...groaning plain., Gaunt wolves and fullen tigers in his train : Before them death with flirieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way I.'" At... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1781 - 200 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks diredfo their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey." This, amongft many other paflages to be met with in the writings of CoLLiKs,(hev/s that his his genius... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...fcours the groaning plain, Haunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them Death with fhrieks directs their way, Fills the wild yell and leads them to their prey. Such is the power of poetry in the apprehenfive tremulous exclamation, ' What if * the lion, &c.' that... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...the groaning plain, Haunt wolves and fullen tygersinhis train : Before them Death with fhrieks dire&s their way, Fills the wild yell and leads them to their prey. Such is the power of poetry in the apprehenfive tremulous exclamation, ' What if * the lion, &c.' that... | |
 | Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death with (hrieks direct their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey, " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz* walls I bent my way !" At... | |
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