 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...genius took, And led the war 'gainst thine, and Freedom's foes. (MASON.) EXERCISE CXLV. HYMN TO EVENING. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1853 - 254 pages
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them. He says : " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;..."midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O Nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With...'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1852 - 244 pages
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them, He says ; " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;..."midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace." " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn." " Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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 Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserved ! while now the bright-hair'd *UYl Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, "With...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : — Now air is husb/d, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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 brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Xow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd b»t, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing,... | |
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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... 
