 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pàgines
...— WHITEHEAD. SECTION V. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to reit. NOW came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all..." £ " They to their grassy couch, these to their i Were sunk ; all but tlie wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | Stuart Feder - 1992 - 444 pàgines
...Milton's Paradise Lost, contrasts curiously with the homespun sentimentality of the boy Charlie Ivés: Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1924 - 734 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Edward Kimber - 1998 - 146 pàgines
...surprize a Stranger much. (Kimber's note) 35. Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 598-609: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long... | |
 | Philip Lambert - 1997 - 332 pàgines
...pleasing Silence? Figure 3.3 Text comparison for "Evening" Milton: [Ivés: Now came still Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk, all but the wakeful... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pàgines
...with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pàgines
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 308 pàgines
...things ciaf: the lines comes from Book IV, 11. 598-9, of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The poem reads: Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these... | |
 | Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 pàgines
...echoes and revises the epithalamic procession in Paradise Lost that begins, "Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray / Had in her sober Livery all things clad" (4.598—9); and in its latent eroticism, it recalls the less sober figures of Collins' "Ode to Evening"... | |
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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... 
