 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...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*...to their grassy couch*, these to their nests', Were sunk*; all but the wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...on, and twilight grj^ Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad, Silence accompanied; for beast and h"^ They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...dead, and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. All but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long...pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * 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 sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...accompanied ; for heast, and hird, They to their gras^ couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous...was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...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 beast and bird, 600 Thejt4ftJihJeJ^grassj_c,o•up•h!-t}iCSe"tJTIieir nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...and Twilight gray Had in her soher livery all things clad ; 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 pleased : now... | |
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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... 
