...Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl doth to the moon complain Of fuch as wand'ring near her fecret bower Moled her ancient, folitary reign. Beneath thofe rugged elms,...

...tinklings lull the distant folds ; 'Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, 'L he moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Mulest h« ancient solitary rcTgh. 'Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's tfiade, Wi.erc heaves...

...of the night. DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered...

...the night. DRYDKX. Imitated by Gray". Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping awl doe* to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. In the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Solaque culminibus, etc.) was altered...

...simplicity of sentiment and expression." 2. Save, that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. « If," says Mr. Wakefield, " one might venture to propose any alteration of such an admirable stanza,...

...drowsy tinkliugs lull the distant folds: Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping oui does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancicni solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shad?, Where heaves the' turf in...

...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her...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,...

...Strix flammea. The white owl is the constant tenant of the venerable ruins above described — From the ivy-mantled tower The moping owl doth to the moon...such, as wandering near her secret bower Molest her antient solitary reign. Phasianus Colchicus. The pheasant, till of late years, was hardly known in...

...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them...

...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her 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,...