 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
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...dead, and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. 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 that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 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,...Rising 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful Nightingale ; She...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...Rising 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... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...evening. " 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 descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous...sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — 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. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV.... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 328 pages
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