 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pàgines
...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, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pàgines
...description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led 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 *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pàgines
...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...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - 1826 - 308 pàgines
...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...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; _ Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pàgines
...Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 8he all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased: Now glow'd the firmament With... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pàgines
...twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. -, Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...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,... | |
 | 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...firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pàgines
...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 , at length , Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pàgines
...ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
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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 descant sung... 
