 | William Collins - 1802 - 198 pàgines
...highly finished. The imitative, harmony of the following lines will scarcely escape the reader, " •- the weak-eyed bat, "With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;" nor the exquisite description of the gradual approach of Evening, " And hears their simple bell, and... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 206 pàgines
...highly finished. The imitative harmony of the following lines will scarcely escape the reader, " ' the weak-eyed bat, " With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing;" nor the exquisite description of the gradual approach of Evening, . " And hears their simple bell,... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pàgines
...Sits in yon 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...the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft h« rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne-in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pàgines
...O'erhang his wavy bed: 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...twilight path , Against the pilgrim borne in heedless [nun, Now teach me, maid coinpos'd, To breathe some softened strain , "Whose numbers stealing through... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pàgines
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oil he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pàgines
...to ' Evening :" " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat " With short shrill shriek flitts by on leathern wing, " Or where the beetle winds " His small but sullen horn." No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pàgines
...air is hush'd, save where the wfak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern « in;;, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rjses 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Jfow teach me, maid compos'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pàgines
...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 hunt: Now teach me, maid compost. To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 480 pàgines
...during the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the Eiiglish beetle, with less offensive sound, " winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum*." The travellers crossed the Arno by. moon-light, at a ferry, and learning that. Pisa wasMistant only... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pàgines
...O'erhang his wavy bed : 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...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers... | |
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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... 
