| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...Silence accompanied : for beast and bird , They to their grassy couch , these to their nesto , \Verc slunk , all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. 236 237 marcha le plus brillant Jusqu'à ce que la lune se levant dans une majesté nuageuse... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...barren leaves. [Erentng in Paraclix.] [From the same.} Now came still evening on, and twilight gray sang ; Silence was plcas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...Some verses are divided by a double cesural pause of shorter duration than that of the common caesura. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, They*...amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; f Hesperus that led -(-The starry host, | rode brightest,... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things claa; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs ; Hesperus tlwt led The starry host rode brightest,... | |
| Child rearing - 1845 - 328 pages
...heritage to our children. Newburyport, Mats. Jft EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the liratamcnt With livid sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...or comparable to this to be found among all the treasures of ancient or modern poetry : " Jfewton. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant1 sung. Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...all things cla'd. S'ilence accom'panied ; for/ bea'st and bi'rd, The'y to their grassy couc'h, thevse to their ne'sts, Were slun'k ; all/ but the wakeful...amorous d'escant sun'g. S'ilence was please'd. Now glowed the fi'rmament With living sap'phires : He'sperus (that le'd The starry hos'ti rode brightest... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1846 - 420 pages
...Repose, Solemnity, and Sublimity. Evening. — Milton. •" Now came still evening on ; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest till... | |
| William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...twilight gray Hadf | in her sober livery | all things clad ; * This mark denotes the csesural pause. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, • They*...all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long I her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest«, ish, Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires Sit...patiently, and inly ruminate The morning's danger : a pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode... | |
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