... 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
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1432 pages
...of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds, 80 And there the pois'nous adder breeds. Conceal 'd in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder 'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, 85 And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 364 pages
...wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder breeds Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered... | |
 | C.V. Deane - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 145 pages
...maintain that in the passage which includes the lines: And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss and weeds, While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls Dyer was emulating Salvator's treatment of wild scenery and desolate ruins. That Dyer... | |
 | John Dyer - 1761 - 188 pages
...j 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 wrlls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring - Poetry - 1995 - 891 pages
...th'apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the pois'nous adder breeds so Conceal'd in ruins, moss and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow. Has been this... | |
 | Rodney S. Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 296 pages
...Apartment of the Toad; And there the Fox securely feeds; And there the pois'nous Adder breeds, Conceal'd in Ruins, Moss and Weeds: While, ever and anon, there falls, Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd Walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty Brow, Has seen this... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Drama - 2003 - 357 pages
...apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; So And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds, While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. [Amidst a gruesome conglomerate of skulls, bones, toppled arches, and obliterated... | |
 | ...apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this... | |
 | ...wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder breeds, 80 Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered... | |
 | 1880
...In mutual dependence find. 'T is now the raven's bleak abode ; 'T is now the apartment of the toad ; Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there fall Huge heaps of hoary, mouldered... | |
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