 ... 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...  Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character, Literary, Professional, and ... - Page 16by Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...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." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament 698 whether] ' whither.' Milton's own ed. 594 volubil'] ' voKibil,' with the second syllable long,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...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...was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale: She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...accompanied ; for beast and bird, , 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long...firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host , rode brightest , till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent... | |
 | Notes - 1834 - 264 pages
...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 glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...niifhbiijjK: She all night long her amorous descant ;ยป"-'; Silence was pleased : now glowed the faw With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the JlW Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless lijilt And o'er lite... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - Aboriginal Australians - 1835 - 388 pages
..." Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from... | |
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