Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous... Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 280by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living Saphircs : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
| England - 1840 - 876 pages
...the skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII.... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast ami hire They to their grassy couch, these to their nest, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glowM the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till... | |
| Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1819 - 370 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." From Vermanton we proceeded... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...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... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...things clad, Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She...night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...accompanied ; for beast and bird. Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk: all hut the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous...led The starry host; rode brightest, 'till the moon Kisiog in cloudless majesty, at length Apparent qneeu unveiPd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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