...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that...

...height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered...

...air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that , from yonder ivy-mantled...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms , that...

...with much 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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. "If," says Mr. Wakefield, " one might venture to propose any alteration of such an admirable stanza,...

...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those ragged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow...

...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that...

...his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of...ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for eVer...

...the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds -, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled...ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever...

...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them...

...glimmering landscape on the sight." And in the next, we have advanced into the perfect moonlight : — " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping...moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign." It may be argned, indeed, that time does not. stand atill...