 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...Paradise Ijost, are stamped with Milton's usual sublimity of thought and boldness of expression : ' Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests . [ingale : • Were slunk; all, but the wakeful NightShe all night long her am'rous descant sung ;... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Wars/lift.— NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Siltnce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...ev'ning on, and twilight gray B:,-l in her sober liv'ry all things clad. S;!ence accompanied ; forheast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale. She all uight long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...delightful calm of nature, and felt the force of those exquisitely beautiful lines of our great poet: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, ,Wefe-slunk,-all lint.I lie wakeful nightingale; sKe. all night lonj£her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...of nature, and felt the force of those exquisitely beautiful Hues of our great poet: Now came stHl evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all dungs clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Conversation and Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery alt things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...lVi>r.*ffip. — MILTON, NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clid. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
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By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple arid gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. -^Now came still evening. on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for... 
