 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 471840Full view - About this book
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? J. BLANUO WHITE. Now glowed the firmament With livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length Apparent queen, unvailed hor peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Solomon Barrett - Greek language - 1861 - 764 pages
...following, from Milton's Paradise Lost, is a fine example of the construction of a climax: " Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvailed her peerless... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung , Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded mapsiv, -it length Apparent .jueen unvsil'd her peerless light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...mother, whose dim form Bends in dark ether from her infant's chair. Skellq. MOON-the Queen of Night. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hiding in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 446 pages
...Evening, Twilight. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest till the moon Rising in clouded majesty unveil'd her peerless light." Milton's Paradite Lost, book iv. 5 1 Battle of the Nile, at ten o'clock,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1862 - 472 pages
...Evening, Twilight. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest till the moon Rising in clouded majesty unveil' d her peerless light." Milton's Paradise Lost, book iv. 51 Battle of the Nile, at ten o'clock,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...ail but the wakeful nightingale; She ail night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightcst, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen , unveil'd her peerless... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...host, rode brightest; till the moon Rising in clouded indjesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale ; 6 She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length 10 Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...her placid eye, Since first to light this wayward earth She walk'd in tranquil beauty forth. Donne. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Riding in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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