 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 էջ
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." . Milton certainly is the... | |
 | English Association - 1911 - 192 էջ
...too it is not only present when Milton puts on all his multicoloured robes of splendour : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ; but also, when he is perhaps... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 էջ
...Cloud: Now, o'er the pure Cerulean, rides sublime. Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured... | |
 | 1909 - 502 էջ
...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...Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 էջ
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 էջ
...closing lines is Milton. First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 էջ
...kept shining and bright in my eyes, and the stars going round in my head." John Milton's "Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that...rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark her silver mantle threw" and "The quality of mercy is... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
