 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 378 pages
...ancestors are, at his request, called up to his view; and he exclaims to his ghostly guide) — " Aroar, what wretch that nearest us? what wretch Is that with...brow ? Listen ! him yonder who, bound down supine, * [Mr. Landor's political creed was always ultra-liberal. It was reported that he had said that he... | |
 | 1876 - 860 pages
...the same sort. This happens to recall the comments of De Quincy on a couplet of Savage Landor : " ' A roar ! what wretch that nearest us ? what wretch Is that, with eyebrows white and slanting brow ?' But what, then, were the 'wretch's' crimes? The white eyebrows I confess to; those were certainly... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...were it not for his eyebrows and his "slanting" forehead, the reader would never recognize : " Aroar ! what wretch that nearest us ? what wretch Is that, with eyebrows white and slanting brow * 0 king I Iberia bore him ; but the breed accurst Inclement winds blew blighting from north-east."... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 590 pages
...were it not for his eyebrows and his "slanting" forehead, the reader would never recognize : " Aroar ! what wretch that nearest us ? what wretch Is that, with eyebrows white and slanting brow ' 0 king I Iberia bore him ; but the breed accurst Inclement winds blew blighting from north-east."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...I Listen I him yonder who, l>ound down supine. Shrinks yelling from that sword there, engine-hung; d forest, 'midst the roar Of cataracts, where 1 ' • AUs, O king 1 Iberia bore him, but the breed accurst Inclement winds blew bli^htim; from north-east.'... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1881 - 248 pages
...the penalty of their crimes in the nether regions. " Aroar," cries the prince to his guide, Aroar, what wretch that nearest us ? What wretch Is that with eyebrows white, and slanting brow ? (In conversation, it may be mentioned, Landor had another formula for expressing his aversion for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...Aroar, what wretch that nearest us? what wretch Is that with eyebrows while and slanting brow ? Listen I es me shrink from immortality — A future like the past. engine-hung ! He too amongst mv ancestors? I hate The despot, but the dastard I despise. Was he our... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...ancestors are, at his request, called up to his view; and he exclaims to his ghostly guide—) " Aroar, engine-hong. He too amongst my ancestors! I hate The despot, but the dastard I despise. Was he our... | |
 | 1876 - 870 pages
...the same sort. This happens to recall the comments of De Quincy on a couplet of Savage Landor: " ' A roar! what wretch that nearest us ? what wretch Is that, with eyebrows white and slanting brow ?' But what, then, were the 'wretch's' crimes? The white eyebrows I confess to; those were certainly... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 pages
...ancestors are, at his requwt, called up to his view ; and he exclaims to his (hostly guide)— -• Л roar, what wretch that nearest us ? what wretch Is...down supine, Shrinks yelling from that sword there, enginehung I He too amongst my ancestors ? I hate The despot, but the dastard I despise. Was he our... | |
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Aroar, what wretch that nearest us? what wretch Is that with eyebrows white and slanting brow? Listen! 
