 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased with the increasing population, andXthe... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...things clad, •' > ' She all night long her am'roiss descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now g'tow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these 'o their nests Were slunk;... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...of Hesperus, or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...of Hesperus, or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in elouded eonsort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose, sinee God hath... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising...hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set ' Labour and rest, as day and night to men Successive... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
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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 pleased : now... 
