 | English essays - 1751 - 684 pages
...hoMs ; Save where the beetle whetls his droning flight, f folds: Or drowzy tinkling! lull the diftant Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain [bow'r, Of fiich, ai wand'ring near her fecftt Moleft her antient fohtary reign. Beneath thefe... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1759 - 168 pages
...flight, Or drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds. Save, that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her ftcret bow'r, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's fhade,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 308 pages
...funt ruitura die. AN AN ELEGY, Written in a Country Church-Yard. By Mr. 'GRA Y. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly...fecret bow'r, Moleft her ancient, folitary reign. CARMEN ELEGIACUM, In CIM^TERIO RUST i co compofitum. AUdiftin ! quam lenta fonans campana per agros,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And droufy iinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...the Moon complain Of fuch, as, wand'ring near her iScret bow'r, Moleft her ancient, folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-trees {hade,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1768 - 142 pages
...flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bow'r, Moleft her ancient foJitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's flbade, Where heaves the turf in many a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds; 3, Save that from, yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The mopeing owl does to the Moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bow'r, Molcfl her ancient folitary reign, 4Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's fhade, Where heaves... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Cats - 1768 - 140 pages
...And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; SaVt that from yonder ivy-mantjed tow'r, » The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecrct bow'r, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's fhade,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...landscape on the fighty And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, JSave where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds...complain Of fuch, as wand'ring near her fecret bow'r, Molefl her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms, that yew-tree's Where heaves the turf... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, aswand'ring near her fecret bow'r, Moleft her ancient folitary reign. • Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Vo L. IV. A Save Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of fuch, as wand'ring...fecret bow'r, Moleft her ancient,- folitary reign. • " '' ' I " • ."• < • • i > Beneath thofe ru'g'gell elms, that yew-tree's fhade, Where heaves... | |
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The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 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... 
