| 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 elms, that... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...darknefs, and to me. * fquilla di lontano Che paia '1 giorno pianger, Uir fi muore. DAHTI, Purgat. 1.8. Now Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And...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, that... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1786 - 738 pages
...Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn flillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings...moon complain Of fuch as wandering near her fecret bowdr, Molefl her ancient, folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's fhade, Where... | |
| 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, that... | |
| English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftilnefs holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings...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, that... | |
| English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...ftilnefs holds, fave where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diflant 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 elms, that... | |
| 1782 - 500 pages
...images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with fcntiments to which every bofom VOL. IV. A returns J Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And...moping owl does to the moon complain ,Of fuch as, wand'ring near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient, folitary reign.. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that... | |
| 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 elms,... | |
| 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 intereft,... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...his droning flight And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy- man tied 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 intereft,... | |
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