| John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had, in her sober livery, all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...Mam and Eve, retiring to r«*f. Now came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, , Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; ,. Silence accompanied ; for beast...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...western throne attend. Now came si ill Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all tilings clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...those beautiful lines of Milton ? Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had In her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied; for beast and...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; _ Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
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