 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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 short shrill shriek...twilight path,, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless him) ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some ncften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...during the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum. COLLINS. The travellers crossed the Arnoby moon-light, at a ferry, and learning that Pisa was distant... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd teaeh me, maid eompos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...in his Ode to Evening. " 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 hum." WAKEFIELD. Ver. 10. The moping owl does to the moon complain.] Shakipeare, in Julius Cxsar, act. iv.... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...Ver. 9. Dodsley, in some editions of his Coll. of Poems, has; While air, etc. Ver. 10. Dodsley reads ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...wove, O'erhang his wavy 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...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...thought proper to lay aside the foppery of rhyme: " Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening...stillness suit. As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return!" But whatever were the numbers, or the versification of this ode, the imagery and enthusiasm... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...itopt.— Milton'i Comus, r. 340. With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...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... | |
 | William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...stops.— Milton's Com" n, v. 340. With brecle ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...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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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... 
