 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...  Poetical Works - Page 118by John Milton - 1850 - 658 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | 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...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...viii. 551), where Mr. Pope has taken pains to make the translation as excellent as Uie original:— Had in her sober ' livery all things clad ; Silence...the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous1 descant sunfc; Silence was pleas'rt : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...twilight gray Hadf | in her sober livery | all things clad ; * This mark denotes the ctesural pause. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, They*...amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; | Hesperus that led •(•The starry host, | rode brightest,... | |
 | 1851 - 382 pages
...Grammar, &c. I. Punctuate and parse the following : — Now came still evening on and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad Silence accompanied...their nests Were slunk all but the wakeful Nightingale 3. Explain the derivation and meaning of the principal prepositions, 3. Give examples of plural numerals... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...shall know.'* So promised he; and Uriel to his charge Return'd, on that bright beam, whose- point row raised Bore him slope downward to the sun, now fallen...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: "Fair... | |
 | 534 pages
...jealous envy, he had learned, from their discourse, that they held their happiness upon a condition ! Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmnment With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...ascending scale Of heaven the stars that usher evening rose. LESSON XXII. The same subject, concluded. 1. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, II that led The starry host, rode brightest... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey plain. Meanwhile the surly monster trots along, But...tortur'd sides, the crimson torrents roll From many a pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...together here. — The description of Evening : — " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; L She all night long her am'rous descant aung ; Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With... | |
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