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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ... - Page 174
1817
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Original Editions, with ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or ihe dropping but shrank and wither' d where it fell ; And of its...shiver'd fragments on the barren ground ! XXIV. Tis \Vbich answer'd not with a caress — he died. The croud was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous...
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Baptized with a curse, Volume 3

Edith Stewart Drewry - 1870 - 414 pages
...broken heart was at rest for ever. But the dog crept up, laid himself on his master's silent form, and ' With a piteous and perpetual moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answered not with a caress—he died.' * * * # They laid them to rest in one grave; death could not part those whom God...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws ; himself sought out no...moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lnred their lank jaws ; himself sought out no food, But...moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress—he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famir.li'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws ; himself sought out no...a piteous and perpetual moan, And a quick desolate rry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws ; himself sought out no food, But with a piteous aud perpetual moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answcr'd not with a caress —...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...food, But with a piteous and perpetual moan, And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress— he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; hut two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies : they met beside The dying embers...
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The Rival Collection of Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools, Colleges ...

1872 - 514 pages
...334 DARKNESS. The birds, and beasts, and famished men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the drooping dead Lured their lank jaws: himself sought out no...answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees. But two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies. They met beside...
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The English elocutionist, a collection of the finest passages of poetry and ...

Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famished men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws ; himself sought out no...answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies : they met beside...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...corse, and kept The birds and beasts and famished men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws : himself sought out no...answered not with a caress, he died. The crowd was famished by degrees : but two Of an enormous city did survive; And they were enemies. They met beside...
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