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 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...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 - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1804 - 176 pages
...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,...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 Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 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 oil he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 His small but sullen horn , As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path , Against the pilgrim borne in heedless [nun, Now teach... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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 - English literature - 1805 - 238 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 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 hunt: Now teach me,... | |
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