 | E. A. ANSLEY - English language - 1849 - 288 pages
..."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,...softened strain, "Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 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,...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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...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....path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now tench me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,2 As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path. Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; ' '. e. braid, for A. SH. brntan, to knit; henoe embroidtr, border. • Did ftray, who spoke coldly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen hum, darkening т May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved return... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might supply the images... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1853 - 254 pages
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them. He says : " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...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,...softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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,...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... | |
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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, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... 
