| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host,... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; 8he all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased: Now glow'd the firmament With... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...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...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... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery...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... | |
| General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...Christian religion, to behave ourselves as we ought to do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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... | |
| Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. 597 Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. -, Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...IX. — Evening in Paradise describzit. Adam and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all... | |
| James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
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