 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 404 pages
...long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."1 Shepherd. How beautifully... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 806 pages
...was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rose brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle drew. He belonged to a drab age and... | |
 | Elizabeth Glass Marshall - Criticism - 1925 - 356 pages
...subordinate them to itself while it stands forth as a head; "Now glowed the firmanent With living sapphires I Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest;...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Having laid this down as a... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Eve addresses Adam. "With thee... | |
 | Anna Lloyd Braithwaite Thomas, Anna Braithwaite Thomas - Quakers - 1927 - 200 pages
...long her amorous discant sung; Silence was pleased: Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o,er the dark her silver mantle threw." Dear father hath a mind stored... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - American literature - 1927 - 286 pages
...was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rose brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle drew. He belonged to a drab age and... | |
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 288 pages
...was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rose brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle drew. He belonged to a drab age and... | |
 | English language - 1928 - 922 pages
...personifications of heroic mold. We would look far to find more epic grandeur than is contained in the following: Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Every association is of epic... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - Bibliography - 1913 - 426 pages
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The Starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. J. Milton (Paradise Lost, Bk.iv.)... | |
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Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
