 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...ADAM and EVE, retiring to rest. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Uising in clouded... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...things elad. Silenee aeeompanied ; for beasl and bird, They to their grassy enueh, these to their nt'sts Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...Paradise Ijost, are stamped with Milton's usual sublimity of thought and boldness of expression : ' Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests . [ingale : • Were slunk; all, but the wakeful NightShe all night long her am'rous descant sung ;... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Wars/lift.— NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Siltnce accompanied ; for beast 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 sungf : Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...ev'ning on, and twilight gray B:,-l in her sober liv'ry all things clad. S;!ence accompanied ; forheast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale. She all uight long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. 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 nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
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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 couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... 
