 Were slunk, 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, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...  Of mechanics and astronomy - Page 172by Jeremiah Joyce - 1825Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brighest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605; The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. WHEN Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Ere : " Fair consort, th,' hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs j Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE describes /zerHAPPiNEss in (MILTON.) WITH thee conversing I forget... | |
 | Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...united to virtue, industry, and social intercourse. Anna fixed her mild blue eyes on the moon, which " Rising, in clouded majesty, at length, " Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, " And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" and lifted up her gentle soul in admiration and praise of the Divine... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...the firmament With livid saphires : Hcspcru?, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moou Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Faic Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things... | |
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