 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...  The Englishman's fire-side - Page 426Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brighest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length...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 retir'd to rest 611 Mind... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 608 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 394 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605; The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...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 retir'd to rest 6 1 1 Mind... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 652 pages
...grave and majestic circle of Skiddaw, " till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length A potent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" — when the long-protracted shades the mountains cast on the bosom of the lake, showed the vastness... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 656 pages
...grave and majestic circle of Skiddaw, " till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length A potent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" — when the long-protracted shades the mountains cast on the bosom of the lake, showed the vastness... | |
 | E. Tomkins - Didactic poetry, English - 1804 - 256 pages
...now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Ere : " Fair consort, th,' hour Of night, and all things now rctir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Anna Seward - Electronic book - 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 mantle threw. Since... | |
 | 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,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE describes /zerHAPPiNEss in (MILTON.) WITH thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and... | |
 | Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 946 pages
...united to virtue, industry, and social intercourse. Anna fixed her mild blue eyes on the moon, which " Rising, in clouded majesty, at length, " Apparent...light, " And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" and lifted up her gentle soul in admiration and praise of the Divine Author of the creation's great... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 806 pages
...SUPR ; Silence was pleis'd ; now ^low'd the fírniAraent With living sapphirs : H -js penis, that Jed The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon •Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, AoU o'er the dark lier silver mantle threw. MILTON. As when the moon,... | |
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