...alliteration of the letter " S" may be seen in Collins' Ode to Evening : " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing." But a softer combination appears immediately after : "May not unseemly with its stillness suit." A...

...painful things which agitated their minds for days past. It was now the time when " air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wings ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;" and husband and wife, both sorely fatigued,...

...the same way, if we examine the first two lines quoted by " Juvenis," — u Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, "With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wings," I think it would be mere folly to maintain that there is anything in the idea conveyed which...

...tent, whose cloudy skirts With brede ethereal wore, O'erhang his wayy bed : Now air is hushld, save where the weak-eyed bat, 'With short shrill shriek...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,...

...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,...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,...

...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...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,...

...oat-straw. Now air is hushed,1 save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by oil 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 teaeh me,...

...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,...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 tench me,...

...place, we find a suggestion of part of Gray's Elegy, in the following : " Now air ¡a hushed, save where the weakeyed bat, With "short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern "ing. Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn." At the same time, the conclusion of this...

...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...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,...