 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd -O& x elouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Folklore - 1825 - 396 pages
...and that he should be walking all the night ; so he sat down under the moat to rest himself, and " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless light, O'er the dark heaven her silver mantle threw, And in her pale dominion check'd the night." Presently... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; _ Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
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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... 
