 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, 1 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but -sullen horn : I As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...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... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; 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 through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 176 pages
...Kow 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,...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 Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...air is hush'd , save where the -weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shrieks flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...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 pages
...shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or 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 compos'd, 61 Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ningvaie, May not unseemly with its st illness... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...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 h« rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne-in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, 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'ning vale May not... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...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 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hunt: Now teach me, maid compost. To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
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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... 
