| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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