 | Missions - 1867 - 838 pages
...all the feathered tribes, by the mellow, powerful, and varied notes of her song. Milton sings, — " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 780 pages
...Third Day of Purgatory. Milton, farad. Lost, IV. 598:" Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, alt but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night lung her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleaded... | |
 | William Russell - 1867 - 460 pages
...Repose, Solemnity, and Sublimity. Evening. — Milton. " 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 nesls * Pathos, repose, and solemnity, if united with grandeur, assume the orotund voice, although,... | |
 | Augustus Layres - English language - 1867 - 184 pages
...thus, beautifull}' rendered into English by a Poet. " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...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 ;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...matchless King. 5. EVENING. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery EI all things clad. Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest*, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her amorous des'cant sang :... | |
 | E. R. Babington - Acrostics - 1867 - 120 pages
...Incessant flow." 5 " Where God pronounced His dreadful law, And struck the chosen tribes with awe." 6 " Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were shrunk, all but the wakeful nightingale." 7 " Modest worth was his." " A Briton's breast, That careful... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...reluctant, amorous deUy. 133. EVENING IN EDEN. (Book W.) Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nestt. Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long h:r amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | EDMUND ROUTLEDGE - 1870 - 820 pages
...Because it made Ghosts of Hosts. 50. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,...grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all bnt the 1. Cryptograph. Ipy yaxe bqvq lys pmzdxjqo ijbxop, Jaynmp lys fyzwjojafj bah pjbxop, Bah xjrqmsj... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...horrible. EVENING IN PARADISE— ADAM'S CONVERSATION WITH EVE. 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 their nests — Were sunk : .all, but the wakeful nightingale : She, all night long, her amorous descant... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 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...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 ;... | |
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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... 
