 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...with much simplicity of sentiment and expression." 2. Save, that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. "If," says Mr. Wakefield, " one might venture to propose any alteration of such an admirable stanza,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those ragged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...Save where the beetle wheels 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 such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; III. / Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. IV. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...And drowsy tinkliugs lull the distant folds: Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping oui does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancicni solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shad?, Where heaves the' turf in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...And drowsy tiuUings lull the distant folds: Save th»t, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The uiuping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret hower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath thoe rnggcd elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves... | |
 | 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...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 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 such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...where the beetle wheels his drony flight,, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of Inch, as wand'ring near her fecret bower, Molell her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...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...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
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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 the... 
