 | Emily Auerbach - 2004 - 364 pages
...Byron's "Giaour" sounds as gothic as anything Catherine Morland read: But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent; Then...native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. Wet with thine own best blood shall drip Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip. ("Giaour") 20 No wonder... | |
 | Raymond Holder - 2005 - 36 pages
...pages. This Stuff is Real! VAMPIRES But first on earth, as vampire sent, The corpse shall from the tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place,...sister wife, At midnight drain the stream of life . . . Wet with thine own blood shall drip Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip; Then stalking to thy... | |
 | Michelle Belanger - 2005 - 144 pages
...poem, "The Giaour:" But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent And ghastly haunt thy native place And suck the blood of all thy race. 60 Speaking from a literary point of view, Byron is the father of the modern vampire. Polidori shamelessly... | |
 | Francesco C. Billari - 2006 - 684 pages
...the various popular stage melodramas which derived from that story: But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent: Then...thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the streak of life; Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse: Thy victims... | |
 | Deborah Lutz - 2006 - 130 pages
...loved by the man when alive. Byron's Giaour is just such a cursed soul: But first on earth, as Vampyre sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent; Then ghastly haunt the native place, And suck the blood of all thy race; There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight... | |
 | Miklós Sirokay - 2007 - 57 pages
...Fragment of a turkish Tale" (1813) wird das Inzesttabu thematisiert: But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent; Then...sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life; [.-.] But one that for thy crime must fall The youngest - most belov'd of all, Shall bless thee with... | |
 | 1876 - 594 pages
...subject of the vampire, as it may be recollected, in The Giaour : — " But first on earth aa vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent : Then...native place, And suck the blood of all thy race." JOHN PICKFORD, MA Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. There is a long and interesting note on vampires in... | |
 | 1912 - 768 pages
...become vampires too. Byron's Giaour says: "But first on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from the tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place And suck the blood of all thy race." Mary Kingsley describes the friendshipcompelling charm in use in the Batanga regions on the Ivory Coast.... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1819 - 584 pages
...Giaour." " But first on earth, as Vampyre, »cnt, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent j Then (¡ha-ily haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race : There, from thy daughter, titter, uife, At midnight drain the stream of life ; 239 Natural History of the Vampyre Bat. 240 Yet... | |
 | 1918 - 860 pages
...willenlos das Gebot der Götter. So heißt es auch in Byrons 'Giaour' : Bui first, on earth as vampire sent. Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent: Then ghastly haunt thy native place. And /nick the blood of all thy race. In der Übersetzung Wohlbrücks lauten die Verse: v Nun gehst du,... | |
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But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent ; Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race, There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life ; • Yet loathe the banquet... 
