 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those ragged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of...that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for eVer laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet -sleep.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rode forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings ch of Heav'n yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save ^here the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beueath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap^... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
..." Or to the moon in icy vallies howl ." Which is from Shakspeare : " And the wolfbehowls the moon." Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 15 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
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Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to... 
