 | 1854 - 800 sider
...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 owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign." It may be argned, indeed,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 sider
...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 moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 sider
...stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinkl'mgs 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 sider
...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 Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | 1821 - 270 sider
...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 moon complain, Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sider
...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 moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 sider
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinkling.* 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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 sider
...from Petrarch : Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings hill the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain 10 An admirable description of twilight in few words. — But nobody has excelled Mr. Mason... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant erfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a eheerful hour, refra aie moon eomplain Of sueh as, wandering near her seeret bower, Molest her aneient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
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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... 
