 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,...  Noctes Ambrosianæ - Page 300by John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hutchinson Rose - 1810 - 208 pages
...beetle with his drowsy hum Hath rung night's yawning peal. Casts her light mantled] • The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Par. Lost. This is finely in opposition to SHAKSPEARE'S " blanket of the dark," which the lady is unwilling... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Pising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,- till the Moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led G0S The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. " Fair... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. 9. When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. £. When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy td be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy - 1834 - 174 pages
...the Grammatical Subject is "peaches." Apply this distinction to another example : " The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o,er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTOK. The Subject is Simple, for it denotes but a single thing, " the moon." It is Complex, for it... | |
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