 And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Pagina 578geredigeerd door - 1816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1894 - 336 pagina’s
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place, vVhere had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering, scraped... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 633 pagina’s
...cry, licking the Which answered not with a caress — he died, The crowd was famished by degrees : but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896
...the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two 5* Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies;...they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place 33 terrified WBr. 37 food W^. 38 war, WB2«., WG-»ff39 again: — W"«.; again— H'G!— H'G*, again.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees : but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 96 pagina’s
...licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. 55 The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place 1. ["If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, T1ll famine cling thee." Macbeth,... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress, he died. 6. The crowd was famished by degrees : but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...were enemies ; they met beside The dying embers of an altar place, Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering... | |
 | Hallie Erminie Rives - 1904 - 443 pagina’s
...one of the written fragments. He read the last few lines aloud : "The crowd was famished by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering, scraped with their... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 923 pagina’s
...answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous cily d that imperial palace whence he came. VII Behold...the Child among his new-born blisses. A six years' lieap'da mass of holy things F-iran unholy usage ; they raked up. Ami shivering scraped with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1055 pagina’s
...cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; re not 310 A pastoral fable) pipes in the liberal...herd; My soul would il mil; those echoes. — Oh, 60 And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands Th« feeble ashes, and their feeble breath... | |
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