 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...  Notes and Queries - Página 3311900Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 páginas
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...O'erhang his wavy bed : 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 His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Vow 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, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 páginas
...to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : b Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " Sreyfly" °f Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 páginas
...artists) to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " grey fly" of Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 páginas
...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With slxwi shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His «mall but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 páginas
...tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede 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 wing1, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 páginas
...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 His small but sullen horn, " As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 páginas
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, - As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me,... | |
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