 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Scotland - 1811 - 268 pages
...nightingales innumerable, and •• — The moori. Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, A parent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." 89 Who is there, possessed of a reflecting mind, that can possibly contemplate the beautiful works... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 pages
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An ebon wand, How his lov'd sister guides * Her silver car, Sweet wanderer!... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 212 pages
...Edogue to Mr. Johnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent quceu unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. PAR. LOST, BOOK... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Uising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Gf night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 752 pages
...House ai half past three on Tuesday morning. Scarcely had the moon risen in unclouded majesty — " Unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw," than the Bridge and the Royal Booth «•.•:•: illuminated, and the Chinese lantherns here and... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...after s \ conjunction they are turned to the ivrtt. "How beautifully is the moon described by JMilton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bookiv. line 606. Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that the moon's orbit is elliptical... | |
 | 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,...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 : " Fair consort,,... | |
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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 descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now... 
