 ... below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps ; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...  The privateer - Page 117by Privateer - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1726 - 320 pages
...Toad; And there the Fox fecurely feeds; And there the pois'nous Adder breeds, Conceal'd in Ruins, Mofs and Weeds: While, ever and anon, there falls, Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd Walls. Yet Time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty Brow, Has feeti this... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Poetry - 1755
...And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruin;, raofs and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | 1758
...; And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds ; While, ever and anon., there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Poetry - 1758
...; And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds, While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | John Dyer - 1761 - 180 pages
...And And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765
...; And there the fox fecurely feeds; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds -, While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
![A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ...](http://bks0.books.google.ca/books?id=sNgIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ...") | Collection - 1766
...; And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the poifonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldcr'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this broken pile compleat, T Big... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 405 pages
..., And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has been, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | English poets, Samuel Johnson - 1790
...And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the poifonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
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