 | David Lewis - English poetry - 1726 - 350 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 - English poetry - 1755 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 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 feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | 1758 - 352 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 feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | John Dyer - English poetry - 1761 - 196 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 396 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 feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 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 feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 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 - 1790 - 270 pages
...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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Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Thro... 
