 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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...was 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament 698 whether] ' whither.' Milton's own ed. 594 volubil'] ' voKibil,' with the second syllable long,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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;...all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Stuart Feder - Music - 1992 - 444 pages
...evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening just at sunset we laid him in the grave, although a humble animal his heart... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.... | |
 | Philip Lambert - Music - 1997 - 332 pages
...Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...nests were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; | but the ... She all night long [ ... all night long, all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale;...was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...gold The clouds that on his western throne attend: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 308 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Appendix 4 (iv. 599-603) 2O=j Reinach's 'Orpheus.': a reference to the recently published history of... | |
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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... 
