 | William Somervile - 1873 - Počet stránok 160
...gracious prince ! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. 15 CAMBRIA'S proud kings (tho' with reluctance) paid...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures, more securely grazed 2O The social troops ; and soon their large increase... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - Počet stránok 760
...from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (though with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves; head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav 'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures, more securely grazed 20 The social troops ; and... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1878 - Počet stránok 500
...invenire jrrvfessus,' ' it was said that he could not find any more.'"* " Caiubria's proud Kings though with reluctance paid Their tributary wolves, head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the ravenous race extinct is lost." But this must be taken to refer only to Wales, for in the first place... | |
 | John (uncle, pseud.) - 1880 - Počet stránok 388
...solitary instance of rigorous enactment ; for, as Somerville says, — " Cambria's proud kings (though with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head...account, till the woods yield no more, And all the ravenous race extinct, is lost." Then, too, kings and chiefs adopted the name of the wolf, or have... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - 1880 - Počet stránok 340
...more."* " Cambria's proud Kings (tho* with reluctanee) paid Their tributary wolves ; head after head, 1n full account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost." SOMERY1LE'S Chare. But this must be taken to refer only to Wales, for in the first place it... | |
 | William Andrews - 1892 - Počet stránok 290
...animal had been totally destroyed. Says Somerville, in his poem "The Chase":— " Cambria's proud kings (with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost." Commenting on this, Mr. JE Harting, in his "Extinct British Animals" (London, 1880), tells us... | |
 | William Somerville - 1896 - Počet stránok 138
...wise, potent, gracious prince ! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance)...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures more securely graz'd The social troops ; and soon their large increase With... | |
 | William Somerville - 1896 - Počet stránok 140
...wise, potent, gracious prince! His subjects from their cruel foes he saved, And from rapacious savages their flocks. Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance)...yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. In fertile pastures more securely graz'd The social troops ; and soon their large increase With... | |
 | Montague Summers - 2003 - Počet stránok 356
...proud Kings (tho' with Reluctance) paid Their tributary Wolves ; Head after Head, In full Aecount, 'till the Woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous Race extinct is lost. Even so serious and careful an author such as Dr. John Caius, in his De Canibus Britannicis,... | |
 | 1805 - Počet stránok 424
...amazingly lessened, and the whole race was gradually extirpated. Cambria's proud kings — thougli with reluctance — paid Their tributary wolves, head...yield no more. And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. SOMEKVILE'S Chase. , By hunting, in days of yore, each young hero laboured to obtain the smiles... | |
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Cambria's proud kings (tho' with reluctance) paid Their tributary wolves ; head after head, In full account, till the woods yield no more, And all the rav'nous race extinct is lost. 
