| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...some lone, dreary, desert tower That time has sparM, forth from the window looks, Half hid in glass, the solitary Fox ; While from above the Owl, musician...! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear." BRUCE. The sublime Ferdousi, the Homer of Persia, says, " The spider hath hung with tapestry the palace... | |
| 1799 - 614 pages
...some lone, dreary, desert tower That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks, Half hid in glass, the solitary Fox ; While from above the Owl, musician...! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear." BRUCE. The sublime Ferdousi, the Homer of Persia, says, " The spider hath hung with tapestry the palace... | |
| Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...year. • Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tower That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks Half hid in grass, the solitary fox; While from above...dire! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. NUMBER XXIII. Queen of every moving measure Sweetest source of purest pleasure, Music ! why thy powers... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...towers to dust. Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tower, That time has spar'd, forth from the window Half hid in grass, the solitary Fox ; While from above...ear. .Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stand. Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...dust. Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tow'r, That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks,. Half hid in grass, the solitary fox: While from above,...grating to the ear.. Equal in age, and sharers of its i'nte, s' A row of moss-green trees around it stand. Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tops,... | |
| Thomas Garnett - Clyde, Firth of (Scotland) - 1811 - 354 pages
...happy." Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tower, That time has spared, forth from the window looks, Half hid in grass, the solitary fox ; While from above,...ear. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stand ; Scarce here and there upon their blasted tops A shrivelled leaf... | |
| Stirling town - 1812 - 328 pages
...dust. Perhaps in some lone dreary desart tower That time has spared, forth from the windowlooks, « Half hid in grass, the solitary fox : While from above,...it stand : Scarce here and there upon their blasted tops, A shrivelled leaf distinguishes the year. LOCHLEVEN abounds with trout of a richness and delicacy... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...lone, dreary, desert tower, That time hud spar'd, /orf A from t/ie -window foots, Half hid in graft, the solitary fox; « While from above, the o-wl, musician dire, Screams hideous, bars!), and grating to the ear. The idea with which this quotation concludes, seems to have been borrowed... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pages
...dust. Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tow'r, That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks, Half hid in grass, the solitary fox ; While from above,...! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. 1 Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stand, Scarce here and... | |
| 1820 - 496 pages
...Perhaps in some lone, drear}', desert tower, That time has epar'd, forth from the window look*, Half hiil in grass, the solitary fox ; While from above, the owl, musician dire ! Si n .HIM hideous, harsh, and grating to the rar. ' Equal in age, and sharers of ill fate, A row... | |
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