 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 Seiten
...tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the onoon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret '• bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. -Beneath those rugged tlms, that yew-tree's shade, VVnert heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 Seiten
...DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 Seiten
...DRYDKX. Imitated by Gray". Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping awl doe* to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. In the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Solaque culminibus, etc.) was altered... | |
 | 1808 - 436 Seiten
...sentiment and expression." 2. Save, that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. « If," says Mr. Wakefield, " one might venture to propose any alteration of such an admirable stanza,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 Seiten
...lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 Seiten
...tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her 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,... | |
 | 1822 - 962 Seiten
...obscene, where, for the music and roundelay of the hoary minstrel, " The mopinpr owl doth to the moon complain Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." I have looked, with such eyes as sorrow sometimes looks through, at that no less noble wreck, that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as. wandering near her 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,... | |
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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... 
