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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 151
by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1805
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...cities, and from gods their fanes: The level I'd towns with weeds liecoTer'd o'er; The hollow winds thro' naked temples roar; Round broken columns clasping...twin'd; O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind ; 70 The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires. And savage howlings fill the sacred quires. Aw'd by his...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...ravifh'd from th' induftrious fwains, 65 From men their cities, and from Gods their fanes i The level'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er; The hollow winds...through naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd; O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the ftately hind; 70 The fox obfcene to gaping tombs...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...ravifh'd from th' induftrious fwains, From men their cities, and from Gods their fanes : The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er ; The hollow winds...through naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd; O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the ftately hind ; 70 The fox obfcene to gaping tombs...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...and from gods their fanes ; The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er ; The hollow winds thro' naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clasping...twin'd ; O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind ; 70 The fox obscene to gapir.g iombs retires, And savage bowlings fill the sacred choirs. Aw'd by...
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The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations ...

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...ravifl-.'d from th' induftrlous fwains, From men tlieir cities, and from Gods their fanes : <& The leycl'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er •, The hollow winds through naked temples ro.-.r ; Round broken columns elufpin? jvy twio'dvO'er heaps of ruin flalk'd the Lately hind; 70 The...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...carp* in scales bedropp'd with gold. On the fifth syllable, or in the middle of the third foot: as, Round broken columns" clasping ivy twin'd, O'er heaps of ruin" stalk'd the stately hind. On the sPxth syllable, or at the end of the third foot: as, Oh say what stranger cause" yet unexplor'di...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Balclutha, and apparently so original, is from Windsor Forest, 67The levelled towns with weeds are covered o'er ; The hollow winds through naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clasping ivy twined ; O'er heaps of ruins stalked the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...Somerfetfhire it is faid of Edgar, " Templa Deo, Templis Monachos, Monachis dedit agros." WARTON. The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er ; The hollow winds through naked temples roar; Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd ; O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the flately hind ; 70 The fox obfcene to gaping tombs...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...Somerfetftiire it is faid of Edgar, " Templa Deo, Templis Monachos, Monachis dedit agros." WARTOK. The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er ; The hollow winds through naked temples roarj Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'dj O'er heaps of ruin ftalk'd the {lately hind ; 70 The...
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Journal of a Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806

Sir Richard Colt Hoare - Ireland - 1807 - 474 pages
...dissolved, the town consequently went, with them, to ruins. *' The lev*Iled town with weeds lies covered o'er, The hollow winds through naked temples roar* Round broken columns clasping ivy tvvin'd, O'er heaps of ruins stalk'd the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And...
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