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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... "
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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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Now air is husb/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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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 358 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, ODE TO EVENING. 165 Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale May not unseemly...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Xow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd b»t, With short shrill shriek flits on by 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, Whose numbers , stealing through thy darkening vale, May...
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Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural ..., Volume 3

Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1852 - 244 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...
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Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor ..., Volume 1

Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...Ibid. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing. Ode to Uvenint/i To breathe some soften 'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning...not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow Ibid. From the above examples it should seem that Collins had a sort of partiality for the hissing...
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Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor ..., Volume 1

Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 346 pages
...Ibid. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing. Ode to Evening. To breathe some soften 'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with ita stillness suit, As musing slow Ibid. Prom the above examples it should seem that Collins had a...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...where the weak-eyed bat, With ehort shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winde His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softcn'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit,...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. As oft he rises midst the twilight 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...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, u The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. As oft he rises midst the twilight 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...
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