 Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray 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...  The Story of Paradise Lost, for Children - Page 44by Eliza Weaver Bradburn - 1828 - 143 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...wisdom, which alone is truly fair. A DESCRIPTION of NIGHT. (MILTON.) Silence accompanied ; for bea*t and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their...but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs j Hesperus,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Denmark - 1806 - 342 pages
...evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beasi and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk- — — . now glowed the firmament With living saphirs." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY TRE SAME. A ow came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk. all hut the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1807 - 316 pages
...combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to tneir nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung;... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...gold 596 The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 pages
...following extract, and parse the italicised words: — Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied...slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night loni/ her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk now glowed the firmament With living saphires." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...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,... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...but the wakeful nightingale, .She all night long her amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire;... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...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,... | |
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