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" 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. "
The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian - Page 112
by John Milton - 1925
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

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...hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive;...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising...threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605; The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 6 1 1 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

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...the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Ere : " Fair consort, th,' hour Of night, and all things now rctir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose,...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs j Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE describes /zerHAPPiNEss in (MILTON.) WITH thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising...Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night to...
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Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 656 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,...Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive j and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight, inclines Our eye-lids. Ere...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : , Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,..."Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night to men...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. " Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set...
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