 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 702 pages
...fecurely feeds ; 3 And there the poifonous adder breeds, f Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds ; J While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has feen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this broken pile compleat,... | |
 | 1805 - 538 pages
...Life's but a road, and he who travell right Treats Fortune as an inn, and refU bit night. LAST EDITION. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode, 'Tis now th' apartment...fox Securely feeds, And there the pois'nous adder Conceal'd in ruin, mofs, and vv While, ever and anon, there fails Huge heap» of hoary mouldei'd wallt.... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox fecurely feeds, And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds ; While,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps ; So .both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; , And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds : While,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...creeps, And with her arms from failing keeps; So both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode *Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox iecurely feeds; i And there the pois'nous adder breeds, V, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs and weeds : j While,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...with her arms from falling keeps ; So both a fafety-from the wind 'On mutual dependence find. 'Tts 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox fecurely feeds ; And there the poifonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds ; While,... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...the fox fecurely feeds. And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mo&, and weeds i While, ever and anon, there falls. . Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. ~>l Yet time has feen, that lifls tfee' loir. ' .• i.,4.vi- -I And level lays the lofty brow, - '... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...creeps, And with her arms front falling keeps; So both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; 'Tis now th* apartment of the toad ; And 'here the fox fccurcly feeds; And there the poifonous adder breeds, Conccal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds;... | |
 | mrs. Mary Morgan - 1795 - 496 pages
...high treafon, in Queen Elizabeth's time. It is now uninhabited, and in the pofleffion of the Barcards. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad; And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, mofs, and weeds. Yet time has feen this pile complete,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...; And thert the fox fecurely feeds; And there the poifonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in rains, mofs, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has fccu, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has feen this broken pile complete,... | |
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That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps. So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th... 
