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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... "
Elements of Literature, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and ... - Page 74
by E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 268 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...livery all things clad; . Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descaot sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the wakeful nightingale; She all night long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led . The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon Rising in elouded majesty, ai lengths Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 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 605; The starry host,...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ...

Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...moon-light scenery in Milton. It is never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Since...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all hut 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...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...sober livery all tilings clad : Silence accompanied ; for bea*t and bird, 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 living saphirs j Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...SUPR ; Silence was pleis'd ; now ^low'd the fírniAraent With living sapphirs : H -js penis, that Jed The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon •Rising...length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, AoU o'er the dark lier silver mantle threw. MILTON. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk. all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode...
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