 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd*. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus',...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* :... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 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 vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, lillthe moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length; Apparent queen unveil'd her peer ess light, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 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 pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...'•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament 'With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...dead, and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. 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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous 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. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful Nightingale...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant 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 HgUt, And o'er the dark... | |
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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... 
