 O'erhang his wavy bed; Now air is hushed, 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 3311900Full view - About this book
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...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...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 tench me,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...skirts, With brede1 ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hnsh'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,2 As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path. Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; ' '. e.... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pages
...tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang hie wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save rancesco prefers it to the dreadful one at Leghorn....we have not rain soon, we shall certainly have mo hum, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...'gainst thine, and Freedom's foes. (MASON.) EXERCISE CXLV. HYMN TO EVENING. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 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,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...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 - 1852 - 332 pages
...whose cloudy skirts, "With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : — Now air is husb/d, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits...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,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace." " 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." " Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless... | |
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