 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh; And their white tusks craunched 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... | |
 | Issac Dowd Williamson - 1858 - 172 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter scull, As it slipp'd 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." One of the most remarkable monuments of old Constantinople... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pàgines
...fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks erunch'd o'er the whiter skull, t 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 fall'n... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pàgines
...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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pàgines
...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 fall'n... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 pàgines
...the fig wheu 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 they lazily mumbled the boues of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed: So well had they broken... | |
 | Christopher Cooke - 1864 - 330 pàgines
...the fig when the 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... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - 1866 - 466 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull, As itslipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1866 - 500 pàgines
...the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skuil, At it slipp'd 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 falleu... | |
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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. 
