 | 1806 - 330 pages
...When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe ; What if the lion in his rage I meet! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And fearful ! oft, when...empire to the mourner night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them Death with shrieks... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...justly due to the following nervous lines. " What if the lion in his rage I meet!— '-Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And, fearful! oft, when...Yields her pale empire to the mourner night. By hunger rouz'd, lie scours the groaning plain, .Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them death... | |
 | Poetry - 1804 - 184 pages
...frantic as I go, When thought creates unnumber'd fcenes of woe, What if the lion in his rage i meet ! Oft in the duft I view his printed feet : And fearful...rous'd he fcours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fallen tigers in his train. At that dead hour the filent afp Oiall creep, If aught of reft I find,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when...empire to the mourner night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them death with shrieks... | |
 | Sylvain-Meinrad-Xavier de Golbéry - 1808 - 382 pages
...When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What if the lion in his rage I meet 1 Oft in the dust I view his printed feet ; And fearful oft, when day's...Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger rouzed he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them death... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And, fearful ! oft, when...empire to the mourner night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them Death with shrieks... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...thought creates unnumber'd scenes of ' woe. ' What if the lion in his rage I meet! ' Oft in the dust Knox hungerrous'd, he scours the groaning plain, ' Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his tram ; ' Before... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe; What if the lion in his rage I meet! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And fearful! oft, when day's...empire to the mourner night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and Sullen tigers in his train : Before them Death with shrieks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...Iustly due to the following nervous lines: " What if the lion in his rage I meet!— Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And fearful! oft, when Day's...empire to the mourner Night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, flaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train: Before them Death with shrieks... | |
 | Poetical narratives - 1810 - 330 pages
...thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And, fearful ! oft, when...empire to the mourner night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them Death with shrieks... | |
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What if the lion in his rage I meet ! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger... 
