| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...thee what tHou art— a cave For owls to roost in ! Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champain, and the numerous flock, That graz'd it stood beneath that ample cope Uncrouded, yet safe-sheller'd from the storm. No flock frequents thee now ; thou hast out-liv'd Thy popularity, and... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...time hath made thee what thou art, a cave For Owls to roost in ! Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flock, That graz'd it stood beneath that ample N cope Uncrowded, yet safe shelter'd from the storm. No flock frequents thee now, thou has.t outliv'd... | |
| John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...notwithstanding the rind or trunk is still of enormous thickness. " Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flock That graz'd it, stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe shelter'd from the storm. Time was, when settling on thy trunk a fly Could shake... | |
| J. CLIFFORD (of Tunbridge Wells.) - 1834 - 206 pages
...still of enormous thickness. Indeed, it may be said of this tree " Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign , and the numerous flock That graz'd it, stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe shelter'd from the storm. Time was, when settling on thy trunk a fly Could shake... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...time hath made thee what thou art—a cave For owls to roost in ! Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flock That graz'd it, stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe-sheltered from the storm! No flock frequents thee now ; thou hast outliv'd Thy... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...hath made thee what thou art, — a cave For owls to roost in ! Once thy spreading boughs O'erbung the champaign, and the numerous flock That graz'd it stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe shelter'd from the storm. On account of its strength and durability, " the unwedgeable... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...Time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in ! Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign, and the numerous flock That graz'd it stood beneath that ample cope, Uncrowded, yet safe sheltered from the storm ! No flock frequents thee now ; thou hast outlived Thy... | |
| William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...thee what thou art— a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champain; and the numerous flock That graz'd it stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe-sheltered from the storm. No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outliv'd Thy popularity... | |
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