 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 pages
...see distinctly a glorious picture that mere naked words could never have embodied or called forth. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their neits, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung :... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...even step, and pensive gait. H. Pers. 31. 14 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in ber sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied,...nests. Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day ; 250 Not sumptuously... | |
 | Louis Désiré Véron - 1836 - 748 pages
...bis western thronc attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery ail things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, TOME XXXIV. OCTOBxE. 12 Were slnnk, ail but thc wakcful nightingale; She ail uight long her amorous... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 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, « cercle brillant du soleil ta vue parfaite s'étende « au loin et au large. A cette porte personne... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...nuages qui sur son trône occi(/ entai lui font cortége. 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 conch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...skilfully selected. Milton has some lines onthe same subject, which will serve as an apposite introduction: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their ifcst, Were slunk: all save the tuneful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...twilight gray Had in her soher livery all things clad ; 600 Silence accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; — all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd :... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1842 - 262 pages
...Adam and Eve, retiring to reft. NOW came still cv'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their neato, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 302 pages
...witnessed, affords greater pleasure than we found in beholding them ; but in the dead of night when beast and bird, " They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk;" and man, the lord of all, has forgotten his cares in sleep — when silence assumes her... | |
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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... 
