 | 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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O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... 
