| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 páginas
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shrieks flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vate, May... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Vow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 páginas
...weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or whore the beetle winds His email but sullen horn. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid cotnpos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 páginas
...bright-haired Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed...bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing1, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,... | |
| John Young - 1810 - 432 páginas
...to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : b Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " Sreyfly" °f Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,... | |
| John Young - 1810 - 266 páginas
...artists) to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " grey fly" of Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 páginas
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wino.' Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; „ Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'nin" vale, May not... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat [wing. With short shrill shriek flies by on leathern Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now tench me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing ihrough thy darkening... | |
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