 | Samuel Gardner Drake - 1837 - 642 lehte
...it had destroyed " multitudes of the barbarous heathen to make way for the chosen people of God." " Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted...their bony hands, — In plague and famine some." — CAMPBELL. All wars and disasters, in those days, were thought to be preceded by some strange natural... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold,...; And ships were drifting with the dead, To shores were all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep. That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold,...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold,...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their hony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | 1836 - 564 lehte
...unsatisfactory impression. The scenery by which the Last Man is surrounded is finely delineated. ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rested in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 lehte
...time; I saw the last of human mould, Tha' shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw the prime. 3. The sun's eye had a sickly glare ; The earth with...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man. Some hail expir'd in fight : the brands Still rested in their bony hands ; In plague and famine, some ;... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 lehte
...saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The svin's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan,...ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all were dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 lehte
...terminated his career, and wanted but little of leaving his bones to bleach on the arid sands : — ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' Surely this little episode is given with admirable ease, simplicity, and energy. ' I turned off the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 lehte
...oxen that perished on the road—devouring the largest bodies with a promptitude truly surprising.' ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' •I turned off the road in punuit of a troop of brindled gnoos, and presently came upon another, which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, Thai, gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold,...prime! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with ape was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in fight,— the... | |
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The Sun's eye had 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! 
