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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... "
The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and ... - Page 262
by Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 544 pages
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...there, Arraying, with reflected purple and gold 595 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, 600 Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...dow'r, th' adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. [Evening in Paradae.] [From the ьате.] comfort from his looks. A largess universal, like the sun, Hi« liberal eye doth give to every nest«, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ;...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...to adorn His barren leaves. [Ett*ing in Paradix.] [From the wine.] Now came still evening on. find 0 [ ً "I 1847 Gould,...and Lincoln"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( nestl, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence...
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The Hemans Reader for Female Schools: Containing Extracts in Prose and Poetry

Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...gathered round us by thy look of rest ; . Thou bring'st the child, too, to the mother's breast. BTROJT Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...living Sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvailed her...
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Exercises in English parsing

John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...pastime of each weary step ! Shahspeare. XH. EVENING. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ...

John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 6OO They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hespe'us, that led 605 The starry host; rode brightest,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 26

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...horizon. Such a night had the blind poet in his mind's eye when he composed those beautiful lines : — " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising iu clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest,...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beasts and birds, Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests "Were...her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till...
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Elements of Literature, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and ...

E. A. ANSLEY - English language - 1849 - 288 pages
...drowsy night," " musing midnight," &c. " O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth." — Shakspeare. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy coach, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous...
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