 | 1839 - 300 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Save Queen Victoria, icho the sceptre holds ! Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain — Save all the ministers that be in power, Save all the Royal Sovereigns that reign ! Let... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all...tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantl'd tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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-rnantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering to her secret bower;... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...' Who will dig his grave ? I, said the owl, With my spade and show'l, And I will dig his grave.' ' Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain.' " Mark, madam, I entreat you, the striking coincidence between the ' moping moon-struck... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 298 pages
...the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And lea ves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all...the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to tbe moon complain Of such as wand'ring near her secret bow'r Molest her... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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...ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complaiu Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...solemn stillness holds, Save where thé beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy linkliugs lull thé distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to thé moon complain Of such as, wandering near lier secret bower, Molest lier anciejit solitary reign.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the ah- a solemn stillness holds ; Save whore the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Save Queen Victoria, who the sceptre holds ! Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain — Save all the ministers that be in power, Save all the Royal Sovereigns that reign ! •... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...desolate — there is not a sound to break the almost chilling silence that prevails, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds, Save from yon ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her... | |
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The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness... 
