 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...and 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...Mam and Eve, retiring to rest: Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesta Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Adam and Eve's Conversation and Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had itt her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...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... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...evening on ; — and twilight gray Has in her sober livery ;ill things 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. Ibid. Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full-orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had, in her sober livery, all things clad ; Silence...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these 'o their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. Z. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fairconsort,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...Adam and Eve, retiring to rest, 1 Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 8he all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased: Now glow'd the firmament With... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...greete " The dawning day, &c." DUNSTER. Ver. 282. from his grassy couch] So, in Par. Lost, B. iv. 600. " for beast and bird, " • They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, " Were slunk." THYER. Milton might perhaps remember Lucretius's expression, " Herba cubile praebebat," lib. v. TODD.... | |
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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... 
