 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 341810Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...those exquisitely beautiful Hues of our great poet: Now came stHl evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...111. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE RETIRING TO REST. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Wore ds, [drops Where freshness breathes, and dash the trembling pleas'd : now glow'd die firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, 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 - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led G0S The starry host, rode... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 564 pages
...in the day, " As shaming anie eye should thee behold — ." So, Milton's Paradise Lost, book iv. : " These to their nests " Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...; " She all night long her amorous descant sung." To record anciently signified to sing. So, in Sir Philip Sydney's Ourania, by NB [Nicholas Breton]... | |
 | Classical philology - 1821 - 494 pages
...grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; ". ' They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With livid Sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : 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... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. 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, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
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