 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat [wing. With short shrill shriek flies by on leathern Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now tench me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing ihrough thy darkening... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...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 pages
...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 His small but sullen horn,...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 - 338 pages
...teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkling vale May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial, lov'd return! For when thy folding star arising shews His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pages
...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,...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 pages
...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening...stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant... | |
 | 1820 - 352 pages
...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 pages
...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,...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 - 272 pages
...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,...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... 
