 | Bradford Kinney Peirce, Bradford Kinney Pierce - Gift books - 1850 - 360 pages
...description of the evening in Paradise, is as exquisite a gem of verse as the language contains. " 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 unveiled her peerless... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - English literature - 1850 - 242 pages
...mind's eye when he composed those beautiful lines : — " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glowed the firmament, With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, eoo They to their grassy couch, these to their nests j Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. /" She...was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - English literature - 1924 - 268 pages
...In his descriptions of morning and evening scenes the influence of Tasso's style is distinctly felt: "Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had...living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 806 pages
...heard in such lines — even in "Paradise Lost" — as Now comes still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rose brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...ALFRED B. STREET. EVENING IN PARADISE. DISE LOST." BOOK IV. Now came still evening on, and twilight graj Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless... | |
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 388 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...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 brightest,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. John Milton 47 AN IDYLL1 The place is the Garden of Eden. 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, unveiled her... | |
 | Humanities - 1926 - 524 pages
...effect of the very first order: Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober H very all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast...sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament \Vith living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, ' Rising... | |
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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... 
