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...a fig when its fruit is fresh. And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, As it slipped through their jaws when their edge grew dull ; As...mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed." Almost in the first page of the Iliad we learn that the dog was... | |
 | 1899 - 336 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull, As it slipped through their jaws when their edge grew dull, As they...mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 pàgines
...the fig when the fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter scull, And »lipjjed through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones, So. I should not have quoted such lines were it not necessary to mark them with express reprobation,... | |
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As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast. 
