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... The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 588by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brighest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 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...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...all hut the wakeful nightingale; She all night long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led . The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon Rising in elouded majesty, ai lengths Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605; The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. WHEN Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd... | |
| Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...consecrates all the moon-light scenery in Milton. It is never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Since... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...all hut the wakeful 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 hrightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs j Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE describes /zerHAPPiNEss in (MILTON.) WITH thee conversing I forget all time... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...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 her silver... | |
| Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...united to virtue, industry, and social intercourse. Anna fixed her mild blue eyes on the moon, which " Rising, in clouded majesty, at length, " Apparent...unveil'd her peerless light, " And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" and lifted up her gentle soul in admiration and praise of the Divine Author... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...SUPR ; Silence was pleis'd ; now ^low'd the fírniAraent With living sapphirs : H -js penis, that Jed The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon •Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, AoU o'er the dark lier silver mantle threw. MILTON. As when the moon,... | |
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