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" 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 glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,... "
Captain Rock in London; Or, The Chieftain's Gazette for the Year 1825 - Page 19
1825 - 346 pages
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...fírniAraent With living sapphirs : H -js penis, that Jed The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon •Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, AoU o'er the dark lier silver mantle threw. MILTON. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er...
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Sketches in Verse

Robert Hutchinson Rose - 1810 - 208 pages
...shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hum Hath rung night's yawning peal. Casts her light mantled] • The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Par. Lost. This is finely in opposition to SHAKSPEARE'S...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night,...
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Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, Volume 1

Thomas Crofton Croker - Fairy tales - 1825 - 386 pages
...had to travel, and that he should be walking all the night ; so he sat down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless light, O'er the dark heaven her silver mantle threw, And in her pale dominion...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1

Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour Of night,...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

1833 - 444 pages
...firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy td be...
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Principles of general grammar, adapted to the capacity of youth, tr. by D ...

Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy - 1834 - 174 pages
...cited the Grammatical Subject is "peaches." Apply this distinction to another example : " The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o,er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTOK. The Subject is Simple, for it denotes but a single...
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Adventures in the North of Europe ...

Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 pages
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." . Milton certainly is the noblest and greatest poet that...
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Home Education

Isaac Taylor - Domestic education - 1838 - 344 pages
...the firmament With livid sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and...
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The New-York Review, Volume 5

1839 - 530 pages
...disorder and violence, not one drop of blood was shed in civil war, and the glorious commonwealth, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light. When we come to speak of the union of races out of which the Roman people sprang, we shall have a better...
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