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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... "
The poetical works of William Collins, with the comm. of Langhorne. To which ... - Page 22
by William Collins - 1804
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Persian Eclogues

William Collins - 1925 - 54 pages
...Night, By Hunger rous'd, he fcours the groaning Plain, Gaunt Wolves and fullen Tygers in his Train : Before them Death with Shrieks directs their Way,...Yell, and leads them to their Prey. Sad 'was the Hour, &c. At that dead Hour the filent Afp fhall creep, If ought of reft I find, upon my Sleep : Or fome...
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The Polite Miscellany: Containing Variety of Food for the Mind; Being an ...

1764 - 404 pages
...fcours the groaning plain. Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At that dead hour the filent...
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The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins: With Memoirs of the Author; and ...

William Collins, John Langhorne - 1765 - 210 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fallen tygers in his train : Before them death, with fluieks direfts. their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. This, amongft many other paflages to be met with in the writings of COLLINS, (hews that bis genius...
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The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins: With Memoirs of the Author; and ...

William Collins, John Langhorne - 1765 - 200 pages
...fcours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with (bricks directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their rfrey. This, amongft many other paffages to be mat with in. the writings of COIIINS, fhews that fcis...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...Gaunt wolves and fiillen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks direfts their way, Pills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At that dead hour the filent...
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A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, that Have Appeared for ...

Moses Mendez - 1770 - 334 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and Jucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" . At that dead hour the filent...
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts : Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining ...

1770 - 268 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tygers in his train : Before them death with fhrieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At that dead hour the filent...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 49

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 380 pages
...groaning plain., Gaunt wolves and fullen tigers in his train : Before them death with flirieks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way I.'" At that dead hour the filent...
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The Works of the English Poets: Thomson, Hammond and Collins

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 348 pages
...wild yell, and leads them to their prey. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" At that dead hour the filent afp mall creep, If aught of reft I find, upon my fleep : Or tuiur fwoln ferpent twift his fcales...
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The Works of the English Poets: Thomson; Hammond; Collins

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 340 pages
...groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and fullen tigers in his train : Before them death with fbricks direfts their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey." This, amongft many other paffages to be met with in the writmgs of Collins, fhews that his genius was...
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