 | Mrs. Hugh Roy Scott - 1875 - 334 pages
...struggle; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the...Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp." One thing that struck us forcibly was the look of age upon the faces of the boys — as though mortal... | |
 | Benjamin Bausman - 1875 - 494 pages
...man, how I have pitied him ! As his father-heart clenches the dragon's grasp, to save his children, " the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp." I wished, and almost hoped, to see him fling the deadly thing away, but he grapples still. I have mingled... | |
 | John Small - 1876 - 646 pages
...struggle; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the...Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.' — Ckildc Harold. In another cabinet of the Cortile is the beautiful statue of the Apollo Belvidere,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenomed chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp. Or view the lord of the unerring bow, The god of life and poesy and light, — The sun in human limbs... | |
 | 1877 - 360 pages
...coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenomed chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp. Or view the lord of the unerring bow, The god of life and poesy and light, — . The sun in human limbs... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 pages
...strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, " The old man's clench ; the long envenomed chain Rivets the living links, — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp. 1 Growing with its growth.] An adaptation of a usual expression, ' grew with its growth, and strengthened... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the...asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp. CLXL Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human... | |
 | Edward Livingston Wilson - 1878 - 346 pages
...gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long envenomed chain Kivets the living links — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp." At the time of its discovery, the excitement produced by the event was described in a curious letter... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the...asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp. CLXI. Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human... | |
 | National Gallery of Victoria - 1880 - 140 pages
...coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench ; the long-envenom'd chain Rivets the living links — the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp." -Byron, " Childe Harold," iv. 160. LYNCEUS AND HYPERMNESTRA. Sculptor: CHARLES SUMMERS. Presented to... | |
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Vatican, go see Laocoon's torture dignifying pain — • A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending: — Vain The struggle ; vain , against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's... 
