 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...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature - Page 367by Robert Chambers - 1902Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...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...pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkling vale, May not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...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...Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me, moid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkling vale,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...Where awful ruins on their mossy roofs Denote the flight of time. Cooper. The Power of Harmony, bookii. Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Collins. Ode to Evening-, BEFALL, be and fall; AS befeallan ; Dutch, bevallen ; to fall, to happen,... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...the weak-eyed bat, With »hort slirill slireak flit* by on leathern wing i Or, where the beetle wind* His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...pilgrim borne In heedless hum. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose member*, stealing through thy dark'ning rale, May... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...western 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...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...while now the bright-haired suu Sits in yon western tent whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where...midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in needless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, , Whose numbers stealing... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1848 - 158 pages
...skirts, With braid 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...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...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...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: To breathe some soften'd strain. Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1900 - 676 pages
...has expressed himself somewhat so ; but the likeness is not very strong, and Gray has done best :— Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. ' Ode to Evening.' The flight of the bat and the beetle " with his drowsy hums " indicates the approach... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 614 pages
...somewhat so ; but the likeness is not very strong, and Gray has done best : — Vow air is hushed, gave where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. ' Ode to Evening.' The flight of the bat and the beetle " with his drowsy hums " indicates the approach... | |
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