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, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... The Poetical Works of William Collins - Side 49av William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - 1830 - 150 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| William Collins - 1802 - 206 sider
...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...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 - 1802 - 198 sider
...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 - 1804 - 168 sider
...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...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 - 1804 - 176 sider
...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...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 Collins - 1804 - 166 sider
...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...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 me, maid coinpos'd, To breathe some softened strain , "Whose numbers stealing through... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 sider
...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...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... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 480 sider
...best the hour when the Eiiglish beetle, with less offensive sound, " winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum*." The travellers crossed the Arno by. moon-light, at a ferry, and learning that. Pisa wasMistant only... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sider
...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 hunt: Now teach me, maid compost. To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 sider
...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...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not... | |
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