 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 born in heedless Hum: Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd Strain,...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 223by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | William Collins - 1802 - 198 lehte
...SUB 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-ey'd bat, ,...where the beetle winds His small but -sullen horn : I As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 lehte
...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 lehte
...sun 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-ey'd bat With...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... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 lehte
...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, flits by on leathern...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 lehte
...seems to have strong features of similarity with the following in Collin's " Ode 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... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 lehte
...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 lehte
...sun fits 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-ey'd bat, With...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 lehte
...a relief (to speak in the language of artists) to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " grey fly" of Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,... | |
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