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 Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Eachpor William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 308 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Collins - 1802 - 206 páginas
...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,... | |
| William Collins - 1802 - 198 páginas
...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... | |
| Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 páginas
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Kow air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compos'd, •To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 168 páginas
...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, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...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... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 páginas
...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 short shrill shriek,...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 Collins - 1804 - 166 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 páginas
...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, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale May not... | |
| Chaplet - 1805 - 238 páginas
...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,... | |
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