 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...guide the state." WHITFHEAIS. SECTION V. YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...poetry, I know not one superior, for pleasing imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...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...living sapphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd tier peerless... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. Section 111. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE RETIRING TO REST. Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas-d : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The stair; host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton : - • Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...subject ; the first describes the approach of evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Eve passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
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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... 
