| John Milton - 1824 - 572 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;...night long her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Adam, iv. 639. With thee converging I forget all time, &c.... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ;... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...description. 1 have often thought that the weakne** They to their grassy couch, these to their uests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry 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. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
| Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant bung ; Silence was pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -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 *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, , Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...things elad ; Silenee aeeompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy eoueh, these to their deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that... | |
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