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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the ... - Page 96
by Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 320 pages
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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, Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...b«l: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,...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless horn : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, : Whose numbers, stealing through...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins

William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...While air, etc. Ver. 10. Dodsley reads ; Or where the beetle winds L v His small but sullen horn, y* As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May...
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The poems, of William Collins, with notes selected and orig. by W. Crowe

William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...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,*...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers...
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The Poems of William Collins: With Notes Selected from the Editions of ...

William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...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,*...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, + darkening vale, May not. unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved...
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France in 1829-30, Volume 1

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 556 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek flits on a 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 thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness...
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France in 1829-30, Volume 1

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 554 pages
...save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek flits on a leathern wing ; Or where the l>eetle winds His small, but sullen horn : As oft he rises...hum. Now, teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain ; Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins, Volume 1

William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...Like thy own solemn springs, 9. While air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat TO EVENING. e 49 As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, > Against...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, \ Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening' vale, May not...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As ofl he 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 dark'ning vale, May...
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