 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 pleased: now...  A compendium of ancient and modern geography - Seite 6von Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 80 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...pleas'd.' Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rose brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, Cnveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. When Adam, first of men, thus... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 Seiten
...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,...length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, A ml o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour Of night,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...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.... | |
 | 1832 - 698 Seiten
...pleased — now glows the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that leads The starry host, rides brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveils her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle throws." What can I add to this description... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 Seiten
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires —...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...all but 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,...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry 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... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 Seiten
...of Hesperus, or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
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