 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, 600 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 livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led G0S The starry host, rode... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 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;...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night...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 Shakespeare - 1821 - 564 pages
...shaming anie eye should thee behold — ." So, Milton's Paradise Lost, book iv. : " These to their nests " Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale...; " She all night long her amorous descant sung." To record anciently signified to sing. So, in Sir Philip Sydney's Ourania, by NB [Nicholas Breton]... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...; Silence was pleas-d : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The stair; host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil-d her peerless light, And o-er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesta 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 : Hesperas,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...all tilings clad. Silence accompanied ; forecast und bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. •* She all night long heram'rous descant sung : *•« Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament *« With living sapphires... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...She all oight long; her aii'roua descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament Wnli living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host,...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 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...her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 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,...all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pteas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,... | |
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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... 
