 Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the Cameleon, who can...  Annual Register of World Events - Página 2211805Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bell - 1793 - 612 páginas
...Sawney's breast. 1 Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, 155 Earth clad in russet scorn'd [he lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grashopper must die : Wo living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there But the chameleon, who can knst... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 páginas
...on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Farth, clad in russet, scorn'J el Johnson Bat the cameleon, who can fiast on air. VOL XIV. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew, No bee... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Fjrth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague...secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. N1 livine thnig, whate'er its food, feasts there, B'il th>- caméléon, who can feast on air. No birds,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...And, whilst she ¡cratch'd her lover into rest, ixmk pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'J the lively green. < The plague of locusts they secure defy, F"r in three hours a grasshopper... | |
 | 1845 - 808 páginas
...And, whilst she scratch 'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd, tho' hungry, on her Sawney's breast. " Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth,...defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die : No livmg thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1818 - 364 páginas
...I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my for tune to entertain. CHAPTER XIII. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green ; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo ; No streams,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 342 páginas
...I retired to rest with better hopes than it had lately been my for tune to entertain. CHAPTER XIII. Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green ; No birds, except as birds of passage, flew ; No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo ; No streams,... | |
 | John Laing (Surgeon) - 1818 - 190 páginas
...fertile. Neither tree nor shrub is to be seen, except the juniper and heath. Throughout the horrid wild no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. This want of trees and shrubs is the more remarkable, as in different parts of these Islands there... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 páginas
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into rest, Sunk pleas'd, though hungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth,...living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the cameleon, who can feast on air. No birds, except as birds of passage, flew, No bee was known to hum,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...And, whilst she scratch'd her lover into resty Sunk pleas'd, thoughhungry, on her Sawney's breast. Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth,...russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts (hey secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whatever its food, feasts... | |
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