| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those ragged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of...in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for eVer laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet -sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rode forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.... | |
| England - 1839 - 894 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary...in many a mouldering heap. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of...in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. • • squitla di lontano Che pain '1 giorno... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. » > LE CIMETIÈRE DE CAMPAGNE. ÉLÉGIE.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings ch of Heav'n yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save ^here the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beueath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap^... | |
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