 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1850 - 194 pàgines
...fig when the fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch 'd o'er the whiter skull, As it slipp'd through their jaws when their edge grew dull, As they...they scarce could stir from the place where they fed . •".i> well they had broken a lingering fast With th use who had fallen for that repast ! " Among... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1850 - 484 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... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, As it slipp'd 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, So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunched o'er the white skull, As it slipped their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead — They scarce could rise from the spot where they fed." The vast arches under Constantinople constitute... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pàgines
...white tusk» craunch'd o'er thé whitv skull,« L! it slipp'd through tlieir jaws, when tUoir edg* grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could me from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pàgines
...tusks craunch'd o'er the whiter skull,« it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edg» grew dull, XV. 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 л lingering fait With those who had fallen... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull/ As it slipp'd 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 ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1855 - 986 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh j And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, As it slipp'd 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 ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen... | |
 | 1856 - 590 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, As it elipp'd through their jaws when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dend, When they scarce could rise from the >pot where they fed; So well h;:d they broken a lingering... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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... | |
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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. 
