 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 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. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast anil bird, 600 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 sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...things elad. Silenee aeeompanied ; for beasl and bird, They to their grassy enueh, these to their nt'sts Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Siltnce 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 sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living Saphircs : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...their repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She...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 - 1817 - 416 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast ami hire 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 glowM the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 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 amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
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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... 
