 And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 65edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 pages
...locust's-flesh steeped in the pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go...good indeed), and having for its subject Lazarus of - - - - - - ... - . . . Arab The man — it is one Lazarus a Jew, Sanguine, proportioned, fifty years... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...in the pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...locust's-flesh steeped in the pitcher ! the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 pages
...locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. The memories even of a single year supplied him with a thousand sources from which to draw pictures... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher! The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1867 - 348 pages
...locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. " The memories even of a single year supplied him with a thousand sources from which to draw pictures... | |
 | 1867 - 590 pages
...locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher! The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the lull draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. Hence, too, that love for colour quite Oriental in its richness, that breaks out wherever the woet's... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1879 - 302 pages
...locust flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living 1 how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, " And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell " That the water was wont to go warbling so softlj and well. " How good is man's life, the mere living ! how ft to employ " All the heart and the... | |
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