 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, AppM<tt»t'<iueen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. There is but one description worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonshine night, by... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...starry host, rode brightest ; till the 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. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now rettr'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; its glittering skirts apOh wnssail days! O customs...well ! Ere this was banish'd from its lofty sphere : When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 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 Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. 9. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, th' houc Of night, acd all thing* now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased with the increasing population, andXthe... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest;...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in elouded When Adam thus to Eve. Fair eonsort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
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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 mantle threw. 
