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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... "
First Steps to Astronomy and Geography - Page 53
by First steps - 1828 - 386 pages
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : ' Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verses; Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus', that led The starry hosf , rode brightesf , till the moon', Rising in clouded majesty', at length', Apparent queen', unveil'd her peerless lighf , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw\ t, When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consorf, th'...
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A compendium of ancient and modern geography

Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV. 598. * Niaovvurloif iroS' upaif, Xrpc^erai or' "Aprroc »/<*') Kard x('Pa...
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The Influence of Milton on English Poetry

Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 746 pages
...sublime. Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; 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 : —...
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Studies Concerning the Origin of "Paradise Lost.", Volume 5, Issue 6

Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 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 . . . Living sapphires for growing...
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Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton...
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

William Butler Yeats - Social Science - 1991 - 356 pages
...down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen,...light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair...
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