 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...clad : Silence accompanies; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sings : Silence is pleased — now glows the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that leads... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. ires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame,...shine : Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton: Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...description of evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Ail ui ii, iv. 639. With thee conversing I forget all time,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...description of evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...night long her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Adam, iv. 639. With thee converging I forget all time, &c.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...is a circumstance which adds great beauty to his description. I have often thought that the weakness They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests....nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant bung ; Silence was pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...twilight gray V, Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; fur beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Were slunk ; 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:... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...description. 1 have often thought that the weakne** They to their grassy couch, these to their uests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...Mam and Eve, retiring to r«*f. Now came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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... 
