 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pàgines
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pàgines
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night to men Successive... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd s here; [pear. Where edg'd with gold its glittering...well ! Ere this was banish'd from its lofty sphere : the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 pàgines
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...although to rest Is almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pàgines
...nost, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvtil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort ! th'how Of niL'ht, and nil things now retirtt to rest, 61 1 Mind us of like repose ; since God hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon 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. Fair... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pàgines
...the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pàgines
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pàgines
...wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence... 
