 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...  McGuffey's First [-sixth] Eclectic Reader - Page 90by William Holmes McGuffey - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 - 1810 - 628 pages
...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...bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those ragged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...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... | |
 | 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...ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for eVer... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...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...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
 | 1854 - 800 pages
...glimmering landscape on the sight." And in the next, we have advanced into the perfect moonlight : — " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping...moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign." It may be argned, indeed, that time does not. stand atill... | |
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