 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
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 Seiten
...things 60 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 Wh;ch was a mockery ; then they lifted up 65 Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's... | |
 | 1828 - 814 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 a little life, and make a flame Which was a mockery ; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Kach... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron Byron - 1830 - 406 Seiten
...scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little '.ire. and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted...Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects—saw, and shriek'd, and died— Even of their mutual hi Jeousness they died, Unknowing who... | |
 | 1831 - 364 Seiten
...surrounding misery, reminded him of the lines in the magnificent poem of" Darkness :" " They raked up Blew for a little life— and made a flame Which was...as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects '." The man bade them to pat down their supper; a small pot of potatoes which lay near, saying, that... | |
 | 1831 - 410 Seiten
...magnificent poem of" Darkness •" " They raked up • Blew for a little life— and made a flame Which wa» a mockery ; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects!" The man bade them to put down their nipper; a small pot of potatoes which lay near, saying, that he... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, 60 And shivering scrap'd with their cold , skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and make a flame. Which was a mockery ; then they lifted up, Their eyes, as it grew lighter, and beheld... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 356 Seiten
...cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's...who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend. The world was roid, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 Seiten
...holy things And shivering scraped, with their cold skeleton hands, For an unholy usage; they raked up, The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for...Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects—saw, and shrieked, and died— Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 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...life, and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they luted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects — saw, and shriek'd, and... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 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': — "A-geV. bM6'ment. 'K6rse. Even of their mutual hideousness they died', Unknowing... | |
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