| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 ページ
...sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clanked, as he paced it to and fro: And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh,... | |
| Issac Dowd Williamson - 1858 - 172 ページ
...city, that Lord Byron caught the idea of the lines in the Siege of Corinth : — "And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival ; Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb. They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 ページ
...sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 ページ
...his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean doga beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 ページ
...it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Sorging and growling o'er carcase and limb ; They were too...busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; (A.nd their white tusks craunch'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 ページ
...sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ! They were too husy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 ページ
...tell The sullen words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb;— They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 836 ページ
...Corinth," is a true picture of what may be seen daily in an Eastern city : — " He saw the lean doga beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb j They were too busy to bark at him ! " In former times dogs were treated here with special honour.... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 ページ
...de la vie aboutit là; enseveli ou non, peu importe : vautours ....And he saw the 1ean dogs beweath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcasS and limb ; They were too busy lu hark at him. From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh,... | |
| Christopher Cooke - 1864 - 330 ページ
...thus describes these noisy marauders in his Siege of Corinth with accuracy : — And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival,...they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the fig when the fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, As it slipped through their... | |
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