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" Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day... "
Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Page 38
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 pages
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life and Notes, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...Altama * murmurs to their wo. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore : Those blazing suns that dart...a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day ; P. Those matted woods where JiiidsJbrget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those...
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The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins, and T. Warton: With Lives ...

Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; I Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, / And fiercely shed intolerable day ; J Those matted woods, where birds forget to sing, I But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; sso...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...introdueed here probably from Far different there from all that eharm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiereely shed intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy...
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Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750

David S. Shields - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 310 pages
...the banks of the Altamahata. Far different there from all that charm 'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around.46 The...
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Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750

David S. Shields - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 310 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around. 46 benevolence for the remainder of his long life. Indeed, much later, when John Adams presented his...
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The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise, from 1530 to the Present

Maurice O'Sullivan, Jack Lane - Fiction - 1994 - 276 pages
...of mother earth, was soon lost in sweet forgetfulness. But I must take you, now, To those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake. I must carry you once more to Egmont Key, where I had rather an unpleasant...
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New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans

H. Daniel Peck - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 166 pages
...Massacre. Yet there may be another, European source: Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more...
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Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East

C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...Deserted Village, in Goldsmith's account of what awaits the English emigrant on the shores of the Altama: Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely...cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake...
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Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East

C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 306 pages
...Deserted Village, in Goldsmith's account of what awaits the English emigrant on the shores of the Altama: Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely...cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake...
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...realize the village ideal, a social order represented neither by the hideous wilderness: Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; nor by the European city where the swain flees only To see profusion...
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