 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 - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...all 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,...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... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...of Hesperus, 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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...things clad, •' > ' She all night long her am'roiss descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now g'tow'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. Silence accompanied ; for beast... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : ) elouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous 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. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : "... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : his stead. Let Sponis tremble— A. What? that tiling majcstv, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 8he all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence...firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led 603 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...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 descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
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