...somewhat so ; but the likeness is not very strong, and Gray has done best : — Vow air is hushed, gave where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. ' Ode to Evening.' The flight of the bat and the beetle " with his drowsy hums " indicates the approach...

...sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove,' O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now tench me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening...

...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....

...sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang hie wavy bed : ent than any of them : Francesco prefers it to the...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...

...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might supply the images...

...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them. He says : " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards...

...genius took, And led the war 'gainst thine, and Freedom's foes. (MASON.) EXERCISE CXLV. HYMN TO EVENING. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...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,...

...his wavy bed : Xow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd b»t, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small...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...

...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them, He says ; " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards...

...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...