They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. La Belle Assemblée - Page 341810Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...sober liv'ry 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 am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...III. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest* 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...sober liv'ry 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 am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- 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 ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms... | |
| Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...imagery, and variety of numbers, than that 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 but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. 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 nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast ami hire They to their grassy couch, these to their nest, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glowM the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest... | |
| Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...those exquisitely beautiful lines of our great poet: 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 nests, ,Wefe-slunk,-all lint.I lie wakeful nightingale; sKe. all night lonj£her... | |
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