| Press, Dublin - 1800 - 682 páginas
...no more, Invite the ftrange- t> the door ; In fmoaky ruins funk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner fees afar His all become the prey...curfes life, Thy fwains are famifh'd on the rocks, Whe e once they fed their wanton flocks : Thy ravifh'd virgins fhriek in vain ; Thy infants perifli... | |
| Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, * The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him, of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life ! Thy swfeins are famish'd on the rocks Where once they fed their... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babe, and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life! Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks Where... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...Stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The rnonunients of cruelty. The wretched owner sees, issenting Jews; \Vhosc fellow-feeling in tteK"<lly cause W babe and wife ; Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, W here... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The «retched owner sees afar His all become the' prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites bis breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the recks, "Where once they fed their... | |
| Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 260 páginas
...to the door ; In smoaky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty, 124 The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 páginas
...the door; In smoaky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar s IT. His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1811 - 546 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
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