 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...  Paradis perdu: de Milton - Page 280by John Milton - 1837Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk, 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, till... | |
 | Notes - 1834 - 264 pages
...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...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. v. 3, 4. See p. 2.... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - Aboriginal Australians - 1835 - 388 pages
..." Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from our encampment, hovering over the trees, far beneath us to the westward... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - Aboriginal Australians - 1835 - 396 pages
...' Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...solemn nightingale Ceased warhling, hut all night tuned her soft lays.' Virgil G. iv. 514. ' at ilia She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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...her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: 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. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. Each... | |
 | Edward Kimber - British - 1998 - 146 pages
...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, 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 that led The starry Host, rode brightest,... | |
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