 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 էջ
...scenery in Milton. It is never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 էջ
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouHed majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Robert Hutchinson Rose - 1810 - 208 էջ
...beetle with his drowsy hum Hath rung night's yawning peal. Casts her light mantled] • The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Par. Lost. This is finely in opposition to SHAKSPEARE'S " blanket of the dark," which the lady is unwilling... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 էջ
...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, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 662 էջ
...nightingale! She all night long her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen ! unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 էջ
...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, till the Moon, Rising in clouded- majesty,. at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 էջ
...nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 էջ
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 էջ
...firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Pising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 էջ
...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 
