 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pàgines
...is a circumstance which adds great beauty to his description. I have often thought that the weakness They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pàgines
...twilight gray V, Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; fur beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires:... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...not, so scrupulous was he in declaring for any system of philosophy. 598. Now came still evening on, Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, &c.] This is the first evening in the poem ; for the action of the preceding books lying out of the... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 pàgines
...different; and it is said that Pythagoras was the first person who discovered that they were the same. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pàgines
...there Arraying with refleeted purple and gold The elouds that on his western throne attend. Now eame elad ; Silenee aeeompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy eoueh, these to their nests Were... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pàgines
...majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these 'o their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. Z. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fairconsort,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pàgines
...star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; ,. Silence...but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pàgines
...western throne attend. Now came si ill Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all tilings clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pàgines
...Adam and Eve, retiring to rest, 1 Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence... | |
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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... 
