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| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...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 oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...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 oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...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 oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, A gainst the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; . Now teach me,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum; Now teach me, maid... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum; Now teach me, maid... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...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 oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me, maid... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is bush'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, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless him) ; Now teach me,... | |
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