 Torment the abandon'd crew ! old age laments His vigour spent : the tall, plump, brawny youth Curses his cumbrous bulk, and envies now The short pygmean race he whilom kenn'd With proud insulting leer.  Scenes and sports in foreign lands - Page 226by Edward Hungerford D. Elers Napier - 1840Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1797 - 480 pages
...treach'rous bog Lies flound'ring, half ingulf 'd. What biting thoughts Torment th' abandon'd crew ! Old Age laments His vigour spent : the tall, plump,...Curses his cumbrous bulk ; and envies now The short pvgmean race he whilome kenn'd With proud, insulting leer. A chosen few I40 Alone the sport enjoy,... | |
 | William Somerville, Thomas Park - 1808 - 354 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering, half-ingulf 'd. What biting thoughts Torment the' abandon'd crew ! old age laments His vigour spent: the tall, plump,...chosen few Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath [height Their pleasing toils. Here, huntsman! from this Observe yon birds of prey; if I can judge Tis... | |
 | Richard Lawrence (veterinary surgeon.) - 1816 - 550 pages
...diffuse Obliquely wheel, while from their op'ning mouths The vollied thunder breaks. • Look back and view The strange confusion of the vale below. Where sore vexation reigns ; Old age laments His vigor spent : the tall, plump, brawny youth Curses his cumbrous bulk ; and envies now The short pygmean... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 462 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering,half-ingulf'd. What biting thoughts Torment the' abandon'd crew ! old age laments His vigour spent: the tall, plump,...; and envies now The short pygmean race, he whilom ken'd With proud insulting leer. A chosen few Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath [height Their... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering, half ingulph'd. What biting thoughts Torment th' nbandon'd crew ! ) cumbcrous bulk ; and envies now The short pygmean race he whilom keun'd With proud insulting leer.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering, half ingulph'd. What biting thoughts Torment th' abandon'd crew ! Old age laments His vigour spent : the tall, plump, brawny youth Curses his cumbcrous bulk ; and envies now The short pygmean race, he whilom kenn'd With proud insulting leer.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 346 pages
...the treacherous bog Liesfloundering,half-ingulf'd. What biting thoughts Torment the' abandon'd crew! old age laments His vigour spent: the tall, plump,...; and envies now The short pygmean race, he whilom ken'd With proud insulting leer. A chosen few Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath [height There... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering, half ingulf d. What biting thoughts Torment the abandon'd crew ! old age laments His vigour spent : the tall, plump,...chosen few Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath [height Their pleasing toils. Here, huntsman ! from this Observe yon birds of prey ; if I can judge,... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1826 - 324 pages
...treacherous bog Lies floundering, half ingulf 'd. What biting thoughts Torment th' abandon'd crew ! Old age laments His vigour spent : the tall, plump, brawny youth Curses his cumberous bulk ; and envies now The short pygmaean race, he whilom kenn'd With proud insulting leer.... | |
 | 1830 - 554 pages
...fully reckoned upon hearing " the tall, plump, brawny youth Cursing his cumbrous bulk, and envying now The short pygmean race he whilom kenn'd With proud insulting leer." But no — by the powers, he gained the top of the hill ; and I found that the object of his wishes,... | |
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