 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 137by John Milton - 1832 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...thither roll'd Diurnal ; or this less voluble earth, By shorter flight to the' east, had left him there, Arraying with reflected purple' and gold The clouds...throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - English letters - 1823 - 194 pages
...water, and found the carriage waiting for us. We left Mr. • and his interesting family just as " — came still evening on, And twilight gray had in her sober livery All things clad." My companions complained that they could not see the scenery, but I, who 151 am fond of contrast, discovered... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...thither roll'd Diurnal, or this less volubil earth, By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there 595 Arraying with reflected purple' and gold The clouds...attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray siders not as a flowing; punctum of light, but as a continued rod extending from sun to earth. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thither roll'd Diurnal, or this less voluble earth, By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds...throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...remain ia Varadlse J---19. How wore they prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, 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 sunk, all but... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...effectual beams Not dissimilar is the justly admired description of evening coming on, Par. Lost, iv. 598. Now came still Evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Where see the notes on Milton's frequent notice of the twilight gray. The Roman poets give night a... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - English poetry - 1824 - 160 pages
...morn, in russet mantle clad. Walks o'er the dews of yon high eastern hill.' Arid this likewise : ' ' Now came still evening on, and twilight gray • Had in her sober livery all things clad.' • " Just think of the gradual change that takes place in the appearance of yonder hills as evening... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...producing a variety of transient and dazzling colours, as our author says of the sun, Par. L. iv. 586. Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Chaucer, in the Testament of Love, has plites for folds. And plite, a verb to fold, Tr. Cr. ii. 12O4.... | |
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