Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Seite 4371816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...hoi} 1 things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shrieked, and died — Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...shivering, scraped with their cold skeleton hand* The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for n little life, and made a. flame Which was a mockery...lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shrieked, and died — Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...altar-place, For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering, scraped with their cold skeleton hand* The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...Which was a mockery ; then they lifted up Their eyes ns it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shrieked, and died — Even of their... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 Seiten
...things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped, with their cold skeleton hands, The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shrieked, and died — Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...things, For an unholy usage : they raked up, And, shivering, scraped, with their cold skeleton hands, The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...made a flame, Which was a mockery : then they lifted Their eyes, as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects : saw, and shrieked, and died, Even... | |
| Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 Seiten
...unholy usage; they raked up And shivering scraped with their cold sceleton hands The feeble ashe», and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and...made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted op Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and nhriek'd, and died —... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 Seiten
...they raked up, And, shivering, scraped with their cold, skeleton hands, The feeble ashes, and they made a flame Which was a mockery; then, they lifted...he was, upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. ^ The world was void ; The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their... | |
| J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shrieked, and died — Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 Seiten
...: | they rak'd up, \ And, shivering, scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands, | The feeble aslves, I and their feeble breath | Blew for a little life,...lighter',) and beheld Each other's as'pects — | saw,| and shriek'd1, | and died* : | E'en of their mutual hid'eousness they died, | Unknowing who he was | upon... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 Seiten
...holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless,... | |
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