 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nestg Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long...firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pàgines
...sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid 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... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 pàgines
...all the jnoon-light scenery in Milton. It is never more, charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Since... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pàgines
...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. Hesperiu, that ltd The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pàgines
...descant «ung ; Silence was pleas'd ; now ^low'd the nrnumcnt With living sapphirs : Нс.чрегш, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...•Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her pterless light, And o'er the dark lier silvef mantle threw. MILTON. As when the moon,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pàgines
...Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starrj' 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 pàgines
...these to their nest» Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pàgines
...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...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 - 1810 - 262 pàgines
...long her aro'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : 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. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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Were sunk; 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, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... 
