 | Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...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 her silver... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs j 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 her silver... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: Now glow'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 her silver... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent {{Ween uriveiFd hef'pee'rless light And o'er the dstrk' her... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : , Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : 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 her silver... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'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 her silver... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'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 ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 pages
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : 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 her silver... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'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 her silver... | |
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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 pleased: now... 
