 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 heedless...  Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 48per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 pàgines
...Ibid. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing. Ode to Uvenint/i To breathe some soften 'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning...not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow Ibid. From the above examples it should seem that Collins had a sort of partiality for the hissing... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pàgines
...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 wing, Or 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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 346 pàgines
...Ibid. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing. Ode to Evening. To breathe some soften 'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with ita stillness suit, As musing slow Ibid. Prom the above examples it should seem that Collins had a... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pàgines
...ethereal wove, 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...softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial, loved... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pàgines
...where the weak-eyed bat, With ehort shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winde His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softcn'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pàgines
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, u The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. As oft he rises 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 supply the images... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pàgines
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. As oft he rises 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 supply the images... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pàgines
...cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, 9. Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eye'd bat. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy darkening vale, May not... | |
 | William Collins - 234 pàgines
...174847. Shall learn the sad repeated tale, — '7472, 3. May hope, O pensive Eve, to sooth thine ear, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 pàgines
...brede 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...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
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