| 1843 - 798 pages
...and which was charitably characterized, by the pious colonist?, as a great providence, inasmuch as it destroyed " multitudes of the barbarous heathen to make way for the chosen people of God." Not withstand ing the ravages of this peetilenee, the Pilgrims found the land still populous. Nor were... | |
| 1823 - 592 pages
...The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expir'd in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were dritling with the dead To shores where all... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1824 - 176 pages
...a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1824 - 176 pages
...a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
| 1825 - 588 pages
...a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
| Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely Man ! Some had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities bad no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...sickly glare, — The Karth with age was wan, — The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ; Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead, To shores where all... | |
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