 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...in his Ode to Evening. " 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...midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." WAKEFIELD. Ver. 10. The moping owl does to the moon complain.] Shakipeare, in Julius... | |
 | Francis Lathom - 1826 - 256 pages
...threats the trembling ear." MASON. " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With shrill short shriek, flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rides 'midst the twilight of the path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." COLLINS. SEVERAL... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...wove, O'erhang his wavy b«l: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...'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless horn : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, : Whose numbers, stealing... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now thebright-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 wing, Or where... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; 4 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 : V * Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat 9 With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...brawluy^springs, ' Thy springs, and dying gales; / / 4 0 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: VNow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat 9 /With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...itopt.— Milton'i Comus, r. 340. With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers... | |
 | William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...stops.— Milton's Com" n, v. 340. With brecle ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...bright-haired »an Sits'in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brcde ethereal wove, O'orhang heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 556 pages
...following passage : " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek flits on a leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small,...the twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne, in heedless hum. Now, teach me, maid composed, 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... 
