| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pągines
...silent bats in drowsy clusters cling — Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around — Where at...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they — 350 THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 67 While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pągines
...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling : Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around : Where at...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies : Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pągines
...silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; \ Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Alas! what... | |
| Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 pągines
...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; 355 Where crouching tigers* wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they;... | |
| D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 pągines
...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. I6 Gary ignores the items in this description that he probably assumed... | |
| H. Daniel Peck - 1992 - 166 pągines
...Yet there may be another, European source: Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies. Mingling the ravaged landschape with the skies.... | |
| Maurice O'Sullivan, Jack Lane - 1994 - 276 pągines
...forgetfulness. But I must take you, now, To those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake. I must carry you once more to Egmont Key, where I had rather an unpleasant encounter with a rattlesnake,... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 pągines
...heretofore a primitivist, depicts Georgia in his 1769 poem "The Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily on Buffon. Whereas... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 pągines
...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. 29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with a fascinated... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 308 pągines
...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they.29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with... | |
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