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The Siege of Corinth: A Poem ; Parisina : a Poem - Page 25
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 89 pages
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The Augustan review, Volume 2

710 pages
...admit of its insertion. We now come-to a part of the poem which we sincerely wish to see expunged. " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 5

1816 - 700 pages
...doubt of the burJesque intended in the Poem before us, the following passage would remove our doubts. " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival. Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 pages
...wandering on the beach, till he arrives within a carbine's reach of the leaguered city, aud sees 4 — the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival.' The following lines describe, with horrible minuteness, the disgusting spectacle, which the Author...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 5

1816 - 658 pages
...wandering on the beach, till he arrives within a carbine's reach of the leaguered city, and sees « —the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival.' The following lines describe, with horrible minuteness, the disgusting spectacle, which the Author...
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Marriage: A Novel ...

Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...fact, hu has given quite a dramatic cast to his dogs :" and she repeated with an air of triumph — " And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall, Hold o'er the dead their carnival ; Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb, They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro j And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him! From a Tartar's skull...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...of the town; Though he heard the sound, and could almost tell The sullen words of the sentinel, ". As his measured step on the stone below Clanked, as...beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb; They were too busy to bark at him! From a Tartar's skull...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Lara. Siege of Corinth. Parisina. The prisoner of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 294 pages
...almost tell The sullen words of the sentinel, 406 As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs...dead their carnival, 410 Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh,...
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The works of lord Byron, comprehending the suppressed poems, Volumes 5-6

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 614 pages
...almost tell The sullen words of the sentinel, 4°6 As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs...beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, 4'° Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...could almost tell The sullen words of the sentinel, As his measured step on the stone below Clank'd, as he paced it to and fro ; And he saw the lean dogs...beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull...
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