 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 pages
...only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence the scar'd owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs,...the lone vale sails away To more profound repose. O while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song, And balmy from the bank of flowers The... | |
 | James Beattie - 1802 - 152 pages
...only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs,...the lone vale sails away To more profound repose. O, while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song, And balmy from the bank of flowers The... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 190 pages
...only theme : My haunt, the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence the scared owl, on pinions grey, Breaks from the rustling boughs,...the lone vale sails away, To more profound repose. O, while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song, And, balmy, from the bank of flowers,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1805 - 178 pages
...only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence the scared owl, on pinions grey, Breaks from the rustling boughs,...the lone vale sails away To more profound repose. O ! while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song, And balmy from the bank of flowers The... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...owl,nn pinions (rrey, Breaks from (he rustling Imuçhs ; And down the lime vale s:iil» away Tu inure profound repose (' •was drawn after real nature....is so very exact a picture of the situation of the church yard of Lawrence-kirk, which stands near to his mother's house, and in which is the school-house... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...the sc;irM owl, on ninioiiMjrev, Breaks from the rustling lunii'-lij ; A"'l down the lone vale »nils .away To more profound repose •' was drawn after...which he so feelingly describes the spot, of which lie most appioved, for his place of sepulture, is so very exact a picture of the situation of the church... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...instance, that the description of the owl, in his charming poem " On Retirement," ' Whence the scarM owl,on pinions grey. Breaks from the rustling boughs ,; " And down the lone vale- sails a yo n •.„•<• profound reposa j' •was drawn after real nature. And the seventeenth stanza... | |
 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 pages
...instance, that the description of the owl, in his charming poem on " Retirement," " Whence Ac scar"d owl, on pinions grey, " Breaks from the rustling boughs,...book of " the Minstrel," in which he so feelingly describe* the spot of which he most approved, for his place of sepulture, is so very exact a picture... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 408 pages
...instance, that the description of the Owl, in his charming poem on " Retirement," " Whence the scared Owl, on pinions grey, " Breaks from the rustling boughs,...profound repose," * was drawn after real nature. And the seven* teenth stanza of the second book of the " Minstrel," in which he so feelingly describes the... | |
 | 1807 - 442 pages
...only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream. Whence the scar'd owl, on pinions grey, Breaks from the rustling boughs,...the lone vale sails away To more profound repose. 8 " O, while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly-warbling song, And balmy, from the bank of flowers,... | |
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Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound... 
