 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, O nymph reserv'd, 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-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales, O Nymph preserv'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 hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shrieks flits by on leathern wing, Or where... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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...'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O Nymph reserv'd, 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-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; . Or where... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...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 - 266 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; О nymph reserv'd, 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-ey'd bat, With slxwi shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd Sun • Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Kow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in 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 wino.' Or where... | |
| |
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... 
