 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouHed majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...With living saphirs : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest 611 Mind... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1809 - 890 Seiten
...night. When all the starry train emblaze the sphere. POPE. So Milton, in his description of the evening. -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest. Par. Lost, b. iv. lin. 604—6. 'Efijxcu, either from sYr/xa perf. of I'rij^i to . stand, or from Heb.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 Seiten
...to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: Now glow'd the firmament...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 656 Seiten
...to their nests Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale! She all night long her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament...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... | |
 | 1810 - 482 Seiten
...firmament With livid saphires : Hcspcru?, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moou Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Faic Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest Mind us... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all. night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1811 - 268 Seiten
...nightingales innumerable, and •• — The moori. Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, A parent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." 89 Who is there, possessed of a reflecting mind, that can possibly contemplate the beautiful works... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 Seiten
...to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 Seiten
...beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An ebon wand, How his lov'd sister guides * Her silver car, Sweet wanderer!... | |
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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 ; Silence was... 
