 | Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - American fiction - 1860 - 528 pages
...this conversation, and the lingering memory of it still checked the pace of the two now left together: "Silence accompanied; for beast and bird. They to their grassy couch, these to their nests," had all retreated. And when Mr. Linden spoke, it was not in his own words. " 'I thank thee, uncreated... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...gentle sighs the softly whisp'ring breeze Salutes the flowers, and waves the trembling trees. Broonu. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in...beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to thonnés ts, Were slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...still evening on ; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence aceompanied ;for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, Who all night long her amorous descant sung.' 40. Parse the words in italics, fully explaining the... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1861 - 448 pages
...Repose, Solemnity, and Sublimilp. Evening. — Milton. " Now came still evening on ; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;—». II She, all night long, her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the tirmament... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery ail things clad: Silence accompanied : for beast and bird,...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, ail but the wakeful nightingale; She ail night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - English language - 1864 - 522 pages
...now run away (Вить., Hud. 1,3, 755.). My sand is run (8сотт, Thomas the Kh. 3.). — »link. For beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest, Were slunk (Mii/r., PL 4, 600.) — steal away. Campeius is stolen away (SHAKSP., Henry VIII.... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 256 pages
...day. (Copyright.) 10 EVENING IN PARADISE. Jons MILTON. 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 Where slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | 1866 - 492 pages
...exquisite description of evei.'ng in the fourth book : — "Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to :heir nests, Were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...MILTON. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 6 She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; Now glow'd the firmament With... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 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...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; Sin ,-ili night long her amorous descant sung; Kilenco was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With... | |
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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... 
