 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...Karroo is a desert plain of South Africa. } The Bechuan and Koranna are names of Hottentot tribes. A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man...fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, And the bat flitting forth from his old hollow stone Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root, Save... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 Seiten
...foot hath never passed, And the quivered Koranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man...fear; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, And the bat flitting forth from his old hollow stone ; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 Seiten
...foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man...lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone; Where grass, nor herb,- nor shrub takes root, Save poisonous thorn that pierces the... | |
 | William Charles Scully - 1871 - 572 Seiten
...JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR. 119 droopingly in the breathless stillness and dazzling glare of noonday. " A region of emptiness, howling and drear Which man...lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone. A region of drought where no river glides, No rippling brook with osier'd sides, Where... | |
 | John Mackenzie - 1871 - 570 Seiten
...JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR. 1 1 9 droopingly in the breathless stillness and dazzling glare of noonday. " A region of emptiness, howling and drear Which man...lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone. A region of drought where no river glides, No rippling brook with osierM sides, Where... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan, — • A region of einptiness, vengeance Sin doth never cease ; In your deep Hoods...my faults and fears ; Nor let his eye See sin but the twilight bat from the yawning atone ; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root, Save poisonous... | |
 | 1872 - 900 Seiten
...hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuon I lath rarely crossed with his roving clan, — 0 "P 1872 J.B. Ford and Company"1 Bryant William Cullen" William Cullen Bryant( yawning stone ; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root, Save poisonous thorns that pierce the... | |
 | How - 1873 - 222 Seiten
...hath never passed, And the quivered Koranna or Bechuan" Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan ; A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man...abandoned from famine and fear-; Which the snake and the li1ard inhabit alone, And the bat f1itting forth from his old hollow stone ; Where grass, nor herb,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 Seiten
...cross' d with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandon'd from famine and fear; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, And the bat flitting forth from his old hollow stone ; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root,... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1874 - 170 Seiten
...foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan ; A region of emptiness howling and drear, Which man...lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub take root, Save poisonous thorns that pierce the foot;... | |
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With the silent Bushboy alone by my side, Away, away, in the wilderness vast Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan, — A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which... 
