 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 Seiten
...from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (though with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the ravenous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures, more securely grazed 20 The social troops ; and... | |
 | William Somervile - 1873 - 160 Seiten
...gracious prince ! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. 15 CAMBRIA'S proud kings (tho' with reluctance) paid...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures, more securely grazed 2O The social troops ; and soon their large increase... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 Seiten
...from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (though with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves; head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav 'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures, more securely grazed 20 The social troops ; and... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1878 - 500 Seiten
...invenire jrrvfessus,' ' it was said that he could not find any more.'"* " Caiubria's proud Kings though with reluctance paid Their tributary wolves, head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the ravenous race extinct is lost." But this must be taken to refer only to Wales, for in the first place... | |
 | John (uncle, pseud.) - 1880 - 388 Seiten
...solitary instance of rigorous enactment ; for, as Somerville says, — " Cambria's proud kings (though with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the ravenous race extinct, is lost." Then, too, kings and chiefs adopted the name of the wolf, or have... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - 1880 - 340 Seiten
...more."* " Cambria's proud Kings (tho* with reluctanee) paid Their tributary wolves ; head after head, 1n full account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost." SOMERY1LE'S Chare. But this must be taken to refer only to Wales, for in the first place it... | |
 | William Andrews - 1892 - 290 Seiten
...animal had been totally destroyed. Says Somerville, in his poem "The Chase":— " Cambria's proud kings (with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost." Commenting on this, Mr. JE Harting, in his "Extinct British Animals" (London, 1880), tells us... | |
 | William Somerville - 1896 - 138 Seiten
...wise, potent, gracious prince ! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance)...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures more securely graz'd The social troops ; and soon their large increase With... | |
 | William Somerville - 1896 - 140 Seiten
...wise, potent, gracious prince! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance)...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures more securely graz'd The social troops ; and soon their large increase With... | |
 | Montague Summers - 2003 - 356 Seiten
...proud Kings (tho' with Reluctance) paid Their tributary Wolves ; Head after Head, In full Aecount, 'till the Woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous Race extinct is lost. Even so serious and careful an author such as Dr. John Caius, in his De Canibus Britannicis,... | |
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Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head after head, In full account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. 
