 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...occi(/ entai lui font cortége. 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 conch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...serve as an apposite introduction: 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 grassy couch, these to their ifcst, Were slunk: all save the tuneful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Child rearing - 1838 - 396 pages
...n" •. inom twilight grey »' »iIi'"iiiflVi r Had in her sober livery all things clad. , -( , , / all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; '•'.•' I • ><i» ' Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1911 - 192 pages
...explain the effect of this passage ? Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus,... | |
 | Stuart Feder - Music - 1992 - 444 pages
...evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening just at sunset we laid him in the grave, although a humble animal his heart... | |
 | Philip Lambert - Music - 1997 - 332 pages
...Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...nests were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; | but the ... She all night long [ ... all night long, all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 308 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Appendix 4 (iv. 599-603) 2O=j Reinach's 'Orpheus.': a reference to the recently... | |
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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... 
