 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus is of a... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. £. When Adam thus to Eve : " fair consort, th' hour Of night, ami all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of Hke repose ; since God hath set Labour... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, 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. so that water there would be carried... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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,... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV. 598. * Niaovvurloif... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 328 pages
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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... 
