 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, 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. so that water there would be... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...accompanied ; for heast, and hird, They to their gras^ couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all hut 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...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 Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: 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. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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;...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Raphael - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. Each... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,... | |
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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... 
