 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...clad : — Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They, to their grassy couch ; these, to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale...night long, her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd.' Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rose... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...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 am'rous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...WHITEHEAD, SECTION V. 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 he* am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament ' With living sapphires: Hesperus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, "Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but 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 brightest... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...clad : Silence accompanies; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sings : Silence is pleased — now glows the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that leads... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...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;...was pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...although to rest Is almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their om crown'd The daintiest garden of the proudest peer;...driven from its envy'd site, it found A sacred sh pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale;...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Ail ui ii, iv. 639. With thee conversing I forget all time,... | |
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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... 
