 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...  The Englishman's fire-side - Page 426Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 212 pages
...Edogue to Mr. Johnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent quceu unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. PAR. LOST, BOOK... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Uising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd...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 retir'd to rest, 611... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...long her amorous descant sungf : 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. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Gf night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 752 pages
...House ai half past three on Tuesday morning. Scarcely had the moon risen in unclouded majesty — " Unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw," than the Bridge and the Royal Booth «•.•:•: illuminated, and the Chinese lantherns here and... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...after s \ conjunction they are turned to the ivrtt. "How beautifully is the moon described by JMilton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bookiv. line 606. Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that the moon's orbit is elliptical... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...firmament With living SHpphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rismg in clouded majesty, at length, ' Apparent queen unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair consorf, th' hour Of night, Rtid all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...give place to her glory as she moves among them. " 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." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII. In other moods the poet or the lover sees in her pale loveliness, not the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...A'he starry ho^t, rode bviditest till the :nuoa. %*8fc'A ш UoHUuU ni.ijcsiy, at lou^tk,. Appatent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam lUiis to Eve : l• Fair consort, th'houc Of mght aim all thmgs DOW retir'd to rest, Miuil... | |
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