 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 pagina’s
...all, the first twenty lines of Collins's "Ode to Evening," which read, in part: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek...hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain." "Now came still evening on," Milton had written, but we can be sure that his evening... | |
 | G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 pagina’s
...to Eve's sensual presence, the poet's body is obscured: Now Air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd Bat, With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern...rises midst the twilight Path, Against the Pilgrim born in heedless Hum. (11. 9-14) The deictic "now," indicating a present time, might also suggest the... | |
 | Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 pagina’s
...western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy Bed: Now Air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed Bat, With short shrill Shriek...Hum: Now teach me, Maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose Numbers, stealing through thy darkening Vale, May not unseemly with its Stillness... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 2006 - 193 pagina’s
...when he writes of the sun 'now' sitting in the sky, and then, a few lines later: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path . . . 148 No sooner do we seem to occupy an actual time and place than we take leave of it again. The... | |
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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... 
