 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...ADAM 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 and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...Paradise Ijost, are stamped with Milton's usual sublimity of thought and boldness of expression : ' Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests . [ingale : • Were slunk; all, but the wakeful NightShe all night long her am'rous descant sung ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...things elad. Silenee aeeompanied ; for beasl and bird, They to their grassy enueh, these to their nt'sts Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...and 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 anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...howgreat! IX.— Ev ening in Paradise described: Adam and Eve'» Cc/n-versation and Evening Wars/lift.— NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Siltnce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...guide the state." WHITFHEAIS. SECTION V. YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...ev'ning on, and twilight gray B:,-l in her sober liv'ry all things clad. S;!ence accompanied ; forheast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale. She all uight long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...poetry, I know not one superior, for pleasing imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
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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... 
