 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pàgines
...Hath rung night's yawning peal." Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2. And so Collins, in his Ode to Evening : " Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. p 2 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, . The mopeing owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pàgines
...O'erhang his wavy bed : *' Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short stirill skriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, " Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'uing vale, May... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pàgines
...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 darkling vale May not... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pàgines
...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 thydark'ning vale. May not... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 352 pàgines
...during the noon-day beat, loving hest the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. * The travellers crossed the Arno by moon-light, at a ferry ; and learning that Pisa was distant only... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pàgines
...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 softcn'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pàgines
...ear, Like thy own solemn springs, &c. Langhornes edit. Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pàgines
...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 shriek...hum; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 pàgines
...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 shriek...hum; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
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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... 
