 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pàgines
...state." WHITKHEAD. SECTION V. Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 pàgines
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires —...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased Were they permitted to remain in Paradise... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pàgines
...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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil 'a her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle tnrew. t When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...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...Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pàgines
...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...unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend :... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 pàgines
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus is of a white colour, and is so strong that she sometimes, it is said, casts... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pàgines
...these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous 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 . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pàgines
...SECTION V. i their nests, 11 ^~i ~i~ """ '•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pàgines
...Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; bilence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament . With living...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th" hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
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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... 
