 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, A ml o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour Of night,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve.... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...pleased — now glows the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that leads The starry host, rides brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveils her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle throws." What can I add to this description... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd s here; [pear. Where edg'd with gold its glittering...well ! Ere this was banish'd from its lofty sphere : When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...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 Mind... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...although to rest Is almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4.... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...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 glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
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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... 
