 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...th' apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder hreeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds; While, ever and...anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet Time has seen, "that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty hrow, Has seen this hroken pile complete,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...keeps; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'T is now the raven's bleak abode; T is now th' apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder breeds, Cunceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...a safety from the wind One mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ;" 'Tis now the apartment of the toad ', . And there the fox securely feeds ; And there the poisonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a fafety, from the wind, In 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, ever... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1815 - 1092 pages
...: Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps. And with her arms from falling keeps ;— Tis now the raTen's bleak abode ; Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds ; Aud there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon there... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps: So both a safety from the wind, In mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; 'Tis now th' apartment...; And there the fox securely feeds ; And there the poisonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon, there falls Huge... | |
 | Dawlish (England) - 1817 - 296 pages
...lines of Dyer are very apropos on the present occasion : 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode, 'Tis now the apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds, ^ And there the pois'nous adder breeds, > Concealed in ruins, moss and weeds. j While ever and anon there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...there the fox securely feeds, J And there the poisonous adder breeds, > Conceal'd in ruins, mos«, and weeds; ) While ever and anon there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls ; Yet time has been that lifts the low, And level lays the lufty brow, * See the British Plutarch,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...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' apartment...; And there the fox securely feeds ; And there the poisonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls ' Huge... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 414 pages
...both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now the' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds, ^ And there the poisonous adder breeds, C Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; j "While, ever and anon, there falls... | |
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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... 
