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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... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 288
1866
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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,...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...clad. Silence accompanied ; for beasts and birds, Those to their grassy couch, these to their nesta Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence was pleas'd. 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. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : "...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 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 COS The starry host, rode brightest,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd Let Sponis tremble— A. What? that tiling majcstv, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 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;...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 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 amorous descant sung; _ Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that led The starry...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...twilight gray SNc.nce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, th'!se to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She. all night long. her am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...
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Captain Rock in London; Or, The Chieftain's Gazette for the Year 1825

Catholics - 1825 - 362 pages
...sat down under the moat to res: himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which, " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, [threw, O'er the d&rk heaven her silver mantle And in her pale dominion checked the night." ' Presently...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1

Bible - 1827 - 294 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...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark...
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