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" O 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.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 103
by James Boswell - 1863
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...indebted almost exclusively to the following ode :— ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 Solitnde, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawmng tomb, Or climb the Andes' elided side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

1851 - 362 pages
...the Andes' clifted side, For Bryan he was tall and strong, ' • Or hy the Nile's coy source ahide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla view the thawing deep, Right hlythsome roll'd his eenj Sweet was his voice whene'er he/sung, 15 He scant had twenty seen....
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...same island, a victim to the West Indian fever. ODE TO SOLITUDE. О SOLITUDE, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or clirnb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Л'Пе'з coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critcal Notices and An ...

1855 - 834 pages
...same island, a victim to the West Indian fever. ODE TO SOLITUDE. О SOLITUDE, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifled side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starling from your half-year's sleep From Hecla...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

Thomas Percy - 1856 - 576 pages
...rectifying the two last lines, which were thus given by the author : 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, ' * Author of a poem on the " Culture of tho Sugar-Cane," */•-. published hy Messrs. Wood and DawkiniL...
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Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy. Repr ..., Page 110, Volume 1

English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...by the Author: 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desart's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or...deep, Or at the purple dawn of day Tadmor's marble wastes survey, &c. alluding to the account of Palmyra published by some late ingenious travellers,...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

George Gilfillan - 1858 - 396 pages
...Or hannt the desnrt's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' cllfted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting...sleep From Hecla view the thawing deep, Or at the pnrple dawn of day Tadmor's marble wastes survey, &c. alluding to the account of Palmyra published...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...almost exclusively to the following ode : — ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifled side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla...
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Third period - From Dryden to Cowper

George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...with the opening lines, proves Grainger a poet. ODE TO SOLITUDE. 0 solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...deep, Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey, You, recluse, again I woo, And again your steps pursue. Plumed Conceit himself surveying,...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 pages
...rectifying tho two last lines, which were thus given by the author : 0 Solitude, romantic maid, Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's...Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, • Author of a poem on tho " Culture of the Sugar-Cane," IK., published by Messrs. Wood and Dawkins....
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