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... The New Parley Library ... - Page 2721844Full view - About this book
| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but -sullen horn : I As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow,... | |
| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...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 : As oft he rises 'midst...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, 1 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 176 pages
...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...compos'd, •To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit, [vale, As, musing... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...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, As oft he rises 'midst...hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften' d strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...twilight path , Against the pilgrim borne in heedless [nun, Now teach me, maid coinpos'd, To breathe some softened strain , "Whose numbers stealing through... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oil he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 61 Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ningvaie, May not unseemly with its st illness suit ; As,... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...His small but sullen horn, As oft h« rises 'midst the twilight 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 May not unseemly with its stillness suit, [vale, As, musing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...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, As oft he rises 'midst...compos'd ! To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 480 pages
...the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the Eiiglish beetle, with less offensive sound, " winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum*." The travellers crossed the Arno by. moon-light, at a ferry, and learning that. Pisa wasMistant only... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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, As oft he rises 'midst...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hunt: Now teach me, maid compost. To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
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