| English poetry - 1809 - 302 pagina’s
...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 vate, May... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pagina’s
...air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing1, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pagina’s
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wino.' 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 thro' thy dark'nin" vale, May not... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat [wing. With short shrill shriek flies by on leathern Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now tench me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing ihrough thy darkening... | |
| 1839 - 894 pagina’s
...O'erhang his wavy bed : *' Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short stirill skriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, " Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'uing vale, May... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pagina’s
...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 darkling vale May not... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pagina’s
...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 thydark'ning vale. May not... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pagina’s
...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 darkening vale, May not... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pagina’s
...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 softcn'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 270 pagina’s
...ear, Like thy own solemn springs, &c. Langhornes edit. Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
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