Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they: While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Seite 9von Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| H. Daniel Peck - 1992 - 166 Seiten
...Massacre. Yet there may be another, European source: Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landschape with the skies.... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 Seiten
...heretofore a primitivist, depicts Georgia in his 1769 poem "The Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily on Buffon. Whereas... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 Seiten
...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. 29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with a fascinated... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 308 Seiten
...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they.29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with... | |
| Susan Glickman - 2000 - 234 Seiten
...Traveller. In this poem the exile has no time to bemoan his lot and be "pensive," since he inhabits a place Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. (11.353-6)' As we have seen, Mackay too was influenced by Goldsmith. Indeed, he opens his account of... | |
| John Richetti - 2005 - 974 Seiten
...The various terrors of that horrid shore . . . Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. Here ends transatlantic discourse in eighteenth-century English writing, on a note of abrupt disillusionment... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 Seiten
...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
| Judith Broome - 2007 - 204 Seiten
...venture into "matted woods, where birds forget to sing" (345, 349, 351); and traverse "pois'nous fields" Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... | |
| Leonard Tennenhouse - 2009 - 176 Seiten
...Altama" (11. 341). Goldsmith also describes the region of the Altamaha river in Georgia, as a wilderness, "Where at each step the stranger fears to wake/ The...prey;/ And savage men more murderous still than they" (11. 353-56). Unlike his predecessor who laments westward migrations, Dwight celebrates the prospect... | |
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