 And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.  Select Works - Sivu 150tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1892 - 384 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 sivua
...another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the sav'd candle and unopening door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not sc his son ; he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right : (For what... | |
 | 1866 - 328 sivua
...another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the sav'd candle and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Yet sure, of qualities deserving praise, More go to ruin fortunes than to raise. What slaughter'd hecatombs,... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - 1866 - 486 sivua
...whose delight " Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Cured the snv'd candle, and unop'ning door; While the gaunt Mastiff growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat." Pope. dependeth wholly to mount nimbly on horsebacke, to make them leape lustely, spring and praunce,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 sivua
...another way: 25 Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle, and imppening door, While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not so his son; he mafk'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right. (For what to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 sivua
...another way : Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate. Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not so his son ; he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right : For what to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 sivua
...another way : Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle, and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not so his son ; he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right. (For what to... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 sivua
...another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle, and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. * Horace, too, gives us one of his neat cabinet pictures of the miser, in the second satire of his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sivua
...his heir. POPE. Benighted wanderers the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. POPE. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end ; Should'ring... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 sivua
...another way : Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curs'd the sav'd candle, and unopening door; •While est wal Not so his son : he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right ;Kor what to... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 sivua
...ancther way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; 190 While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not so his son ; he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right : (For what... | |
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