 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1778 - 182 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant 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 antient folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...flillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as wandering near her fecret bowdr, Molefl her ancient, folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 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,... | |
 | 1781 - 512 pages
...ftilnefs holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds .Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 pages
...where the beetle wheels his droning ffight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds ; Save : h:'t , from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of fuch as, wandering near her fecret bower, Moleft her ancient folitary reign, Beneath thofe rugged elms,... | |
 | 1781 - 516 pages
...OH UHC H- YAXP. BY MR. GRAY. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to mei. / Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight. , And all the... | |
 | 1782 - 500 pages
...ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 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... | |
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman 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... 
