 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...bat, With short, shrill shriek, flits bye on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small and sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum i Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...ethereal wove, 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while nowthebright-hair'd Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...ethereal wove, 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 410 pages
...brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...ethereal wove, 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...solemn springs, Thy spriugs, and dying gales, O Nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits on yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is bush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shrieks flits by on leathern wing, Or where... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales, O nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-haired sun Sits on yon western tent, whose cloudy 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 wing, Or where... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springe, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd Sun appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess hnsh'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; 0 nymph reserved ! while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...ethereal wove, 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... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...during the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum. COLLINS. The travellers crossed the Arnoby moon-light, at a ferry, and learning that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd heedless hum : Now teaeh me, maid eompos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing... | |
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O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, 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... 
