 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pàgines
...amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : ' Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pàgines
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus', that led The starry hosf , rode brightesf , till the moon', Rising in clouded majesty', at length', Apparent queen', unveil'd her peerless lighf , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw\ t, When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consorf, th'... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pàgines
...sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV. 598. * Niaovvurloif iroS' upaif, Xrpc^erai or' "Aprroc »/<*') Kard x('Pa Ttiv... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pàgines
...the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pàgines
...amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw; When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pàgines
...the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pàgines
...moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1991 - 356 pàgines
...down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen,...light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pàgines
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 pàgines
...stars going round in my head." John Milton's "Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that led the starry host, rode brightest; till the...rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark her silver mantle threw" and "The quality of mercy is... | |
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... 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 descant sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
