| William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Ordrowfy tinklings lull thediftant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bower, fyloleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bower, Moleft her antient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1786 - 738 pages
...flillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as wandering near her fecret bowdr, Molefl her ancient, folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 456 pages
...beetle, wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftaht folds ; i" ;M ?•.!. ir ' ' Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower,. , . The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as, wandering^ear her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
| English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...ftilnefs holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds .Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as waad'ring near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 390 pages
...where the beetle wheels his droning ffight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save : h:'t , from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as, wandering near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient folitary reign, Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
| 1782 - 500 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain ,Of fuch as, wand'ring near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient, folitary reign.. Beneath thofe rugged... | |
| John Young - 1783 - 124 pages
...parting day,'] Squilla di lontano, Che paia '1 giorno pianger, che fi muore. DANTE, Purgat. 1. 8. III. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping Owl does to the Moon complain Of fuch, as., wand'ring near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient, folitary reign. IV. Beneath thofe rugged... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; r Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bow'r, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Poetry can alone univerfally... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as, wandering near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
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