 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. and facilitates, in a great degree, our conquest over them, and the infrequency of which is the cause... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : LFNCX AND III. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. tr IV. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...where the bee'tle/ wheels his droning fli'ght, • And drowsy tin'klings/ lull the distant fo'lds ; Save that, from yo'nder/ ivy-mantled to'wer, The moping...wandering/ near her secret bo'wer, Mole'st her an'cient/ solTtary-reign. Ha'rk ! how the sacred ca'lm/ that breathes aro'und, Bids every fier'ce/ tumultuous... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...holds,1 Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save, that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,2 Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,3 that yew-tree's shade, Where... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 340 pages
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. • Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease, In... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease, In still... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1883 - 462 pages
...in his far-famed Elegy, uses a very appropriate term in reference to the bird that loves solitude : From yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Apart from the superstitions which have been always and everywhere current regarding the Owl, and the... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Gosse (Alden, p. 73) says of it: In the nineteenth century both aba bg and aba b4 are much used. Longfellow... | |
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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... 
