 Solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Stran 201avtor: James Boswell - 1823Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1782 - 516 strani
...with according lutes Grace the foft warbles of her honied voice. SOLITUDE. AH ODE. BY DR. GRAINGER. I. O Solitude, romantick maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread. Or haunt the defart's tracklefs gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or Or climb the Andes' clifted fide, Or... | |
 | 1791 - 198 strani
...This folly-fetter'd world despise ! ODE XL VI. TO SOLITUDE. BY JAMES GRAINGER, MD O SOLITUDE! romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 strani
...folly-fetter'd world despise! ODE XLVI. TO SOLITUDE. BY JAMES GRAINGER, MD O SOLITUDE I romantic maid, Whither by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 strani
...sounding it herd, as it is most usually done. He said his reason was, that if it was pronounced herd, there would be a single exception from the English...and he thought it better not to have that exception. Sir Joshua Reynolds having one day said, that he took the altitude of a man's taste by his stories... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 strani
...once visited England in the mean time, he died in the year 1767 lamented and loved. Solitude, an Ode. O SOLITUDE, romantick maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 strani
...the bursting storm, Tempests nor thunder can deform ODE TO SOLITUDE. [GRAINGER.] O SOLITUDE, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 strani
...proofs of classical taste and learning. POEMS JAMES GRAINGER, MD SOLITUDE. AN Ol'E. 0 SOLITUDE, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla... | |
 | Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 strani
...imagination, to enliven piety, to sweeten peace, and to furnish amusement to solitude. " O Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread; Or haunt...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb; Or climb the Andes' clefted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide ; Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 strani
...then, expressive silence, muse his praise. SECTION XXIII. On Solitude. THOMSON. O SOLITUDE, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side T Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 strani
...pronunciation of 1777. the syllable ear, and he thought it better not to have jEteCgl that excePtionHe praised Grainger's " Ode on Solitude," in Dodsley's...Whether by nodding towers you tread ; " Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, " Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; " Or climb the Andes' clifted side, "... | |
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