 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 sider
...emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandon'd, from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...old hollow stone; Where grass, nor herb, nor shrub takes root, Save poisonous thorns that pierce the foot ; And the bitter-melon, for food and drink,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1832 - 272 sider
...from the curse of barrenness ; but in general we traverse a dreary and dreadful domain of naked rock: A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the old hollow stone; Where grass, nor... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1832 - 438 sider
...from the curse of barrenness ; but in general we traverse a dreary and dreadful domain of naked rock : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the old hollow stone ; Where grass,... | |
 | 1832 - 342 sider
...from the curse of barrenness ; but in general we traverse a dreary and dreadful domain of naked rock : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the old hollow stone; Where grass, nor... | |
 | Andrew Steedman - 1895 - 402 sider
...hath seldom passed, And the quiver'd Coranna or Bechuan Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone ; Where grass, nor... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - 1837 - 386 sider
...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 hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone ; Where grass, nor... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - 1839 - 392 sider
...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 hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone ; Where grass, nor... | |
 | Marianne Young - 1839 - 422 sider
...beauty of freshness and grace over mouldering walls, and heaps of rubbish, " Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, 'With the twilight bat, from the old hollow stone." In days of yore, architectural skill would seem to have been a dangerous talent to its possessor ;... | |
 | 1846 - 308 sider
...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 hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the yawning stone ; Where grass, nor... | |
 | 1847 - 434 sider
...hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan Hath scarcely crossed with his roving clan: A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which man hath abandoned from famine and fear, Which the sucker and lizard inhabit alone — With the twilight bat from the yawny stone Where grass, nor herb,... | |
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With the silent Bush-boy 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,... 
