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" Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the 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 tower, The moping owl does to... "
A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ... - Page 598
by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 776 pages
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A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with ...

Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...Gray, in his beautiful " Elegy in a Country Churcli Yard," expresses himself in the following manner : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark ! how the sacred calm that hreathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy t ink lings lull the distant folds; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; — 3. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. 4. Beneath those nigged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep....
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...important in rhyme, even when it does not coincide with the sentential, as to merit another example: — Save, that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Remark. — The final pause at "complain," takes (as it always does when not in alliance with the sentential...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 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...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep....
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 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...that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many amouldering heap. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep....
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Save where the beetle* wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 3. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. 4. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,...
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