| George Richard Jesse - 1866 - 466 ページ
...Pariah dog. Byron's lines are very truly descriptive of the scene that follows : — " 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 ページ
...sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And ho 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 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.) - 1868 - 666 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....carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him 1 From a Tartar's skull they hud stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1868 - 458 ページ
...— is the well-known picture of the scene under the wall in the Siege of Corinth : l1e saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival; Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They woro too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh,... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 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 ! Prom a Tartar's skull they had stripped... | |
| Horace - 1870 - 540 ページ
...adapted for the caldron would be a human bone. So, in the " Siege of Gorinth," — "And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb," etc. || "Flammis aduri Colchicis." The materials thus collected by the witches are... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 ページ
...dogs beneath the \v."Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and Lrab They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had st npp'd tho ~As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 838 ページ
...of Corinth," is a true picture of what may be seen daily in an Eastern city : — " He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival,...carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! " In former times dogs were treated here with special honour. "The Great Turk's dogs, and the manner... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 ページ
...of the bastion, under the fire of tbe sentinels ; and he hardly thinks of it: ' 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... | |
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