 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 Seiten
...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, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'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... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament.../ 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 Seiten
...to their nest Where sunk, 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 peertess light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | 492 Seiten
...BANKS. A MOONLIGHT SCENE. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THERE are certain great and magnificent objects in the creation, the contemplation of which has a tendency... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 Seiten
...sunk all but the wakeful nightingale ; S?he all night long her amorous:descant sung : xi Silence wns pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires...led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, ' Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, Ami o'er the dark... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 Seiten
...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...led The starry host; rode brightest, 'till the moon Kisiog in cloudless majesty, at length Apparent qneeu unveiPd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd die to lie bid ; sea he had scarch'd, and land, From Eden over Pontus and the pool Msotis, up beyond the Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 Seiten
...With livid sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, til! the moon, Hifingin clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dnrk her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve " Fair Consort, th' lionr Of night, and all things... | |
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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... 
