| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is the Earth, of which we shall soon speak at full length. At present I shall... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
| Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She. all night long. her am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silrer mantle threw. . . Wh.'ti Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' boor Of night, and all things... | |
| Thomas Crofton Croker - Fairy tales - 1826 - 366 pages
...sat down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, .Apparent Queen^...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...VVith living sapphires : Hesperus, that led Ihe starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Wising m clouded majesty, at length. Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver-mantle threw. of • "L am thns to Eve : " Fair consort, th' tour 01 : night, and all things... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...600 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 COS The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd*. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus',...light' , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw*. When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consort', th' hour Of night', and all things nowretir'd to rest', Mind... | |
| Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 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...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, Mind... | |
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