 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, A ml o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour Of night,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve.... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...pleased — now glows the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that leads The starry host, rides brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveils her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle throws." What can I add to this description... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...although to rest Is almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 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. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry nost, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvtil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence... 
