 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...  A compendium of ancient and modern geography - Էջ 6Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 80 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 էջ
...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,...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 էջ
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, II that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | 534 էջ
...nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmnment With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Eising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 էջ
...wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her amorous descant sang. 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." • 3. — Solemnity and Sublimity.... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 էջ
...c. xix. st. 160. ' Whilst Silence sate upon his lips.' "With living saphirs ; Hesperus that led eos The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unvail'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - 1913 - 426 էջ
...the 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. J. Milton (Paradise Lost, Bk.iv.)... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1909 - 502 էջ
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw; When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Raphael - 1996 - 264 էջ
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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