 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from gods their fanes : The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover' d o'er ; The hollow winds through e freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triSers half their wish ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And savage howlings fill the sacred quires. Aw'd by his... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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 clasping...twin'd ; O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind ; 70 NOTES. Ver. 65. The fields are ravish'd, fyc.'\ Alluding to the destruction made in the New Forest,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...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 clasping ivy twin'd ; O'er heaps of ruins stalk the stately hind: The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And savage howlings fill the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 766 pages
...scales bedropp'd with gold. On the fifth syllable, or in the middle of the third foot : as, • Hound broken columns" clasping ivy twin'd, O'er heaps of ruin" stalk'd the stately hind. On the sixth syllable, or at the end of the third foot : as, Oh say what stranger cause" yet unexplor'd,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 718 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 hiud. On the sixth syllable, or at the end of the third foot : as, Oh say what stranger cause" yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...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 clasping...twin'd ; O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And savage bowlings fill the sacred quires. Aw'd by his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 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 sixth syllable, or at the end of the third foot: as, Oh say what stranger cause" yet unexplor'd,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 208 pages
...["•] The silver eel", in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp", in scales bedropp'd with gold. Round broken columns", clasping ivy twin'd, O'er heaps of ruin", stalk'd the stately hind. Oh, say, what stranger cause", yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle", reject a lord. The line... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Hammersmith (England) - 1839 - 482 pages
...and from gods their fanes ; The levelled towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er, The hollow winds through naked temples roar. Round broken columns, clasping...twin'd. O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And savage bowlings nil the sacred quires. — WARTON. The... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...applied to the place : — " The loveliest town with weeds lies covered o'er, The hollow winds through naked temples roar, Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd, O'er heaps of ruin stalked the stately hind; The fox obscure to gaping tombs retires, And savage bowlings fill the sacred... | |
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From men their cities, 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 ivy twin'd; O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind; The fox obscene to gaping... 
