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" 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 and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First ... - Page 72
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1780
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The Deserted Village: A Poem

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; Where at each flep the ftranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of...tigers wait their haplefs prey, And favage men more murderous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landfchape...
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Retaliation: a poem. To which is added, some account of the life ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...Thofe poifonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned,. Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; Where at each ftep the ft/ranger fears to wake The...tigers wait their haplefs prey, And favage men, more murderous flill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landfchape...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion. A Collection of Poems: By Lord Carlisle. Lord ...

1785 - 304 pages
...Thofe pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crojvn'd, Where the dsrk fcorpion gathers death around ; Where at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The...rattling terrors of the vengeful fnake ; Where crouching tygers wait their haplefs prey, And favage men more murd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 320 pages
...Thofe pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark fcorpion gather* death around ; Where at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful fnalce : Where crouching tygers wait their haplefc prey, And favage men more murd'rous ftill than they...
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Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets

John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...Thofe poifonous fields, with rank luxuriance trown'J, Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; Where at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful fhake ; Where crouding tigers wait'their haplefs prey, And favage men more murderous ftill than they;...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around; Where at each Hep the ftranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful fnake : Where crouching tygers wait their haplefs prey, And favage men more murd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; F 4 Where Where at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The...crouching tigers wait their haplefs prey, And favage men moremurd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landfcape...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; Whore at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The rattling...vengeful fnake ; Where crouching tigers wait their haplcfs prey, And fava^e men, more murd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance Where the dark fcorpion gathers death around ; Where at each ftcp f praife. Can ftoricd urn, or animated buft, Back...its manfion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's haplcfs jrey; And favagc men, more murd'rous ftill than they: While oft in whirls the1 mad tornado...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
...Thofe poif 'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd , Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each ftep the ftranger fears to wake The...fnake, Where crouching tigers wait their haplefs prey, And.favage men more murd'rous ftill than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling...
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