 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." ; Again : " The sun was... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd -O& x elouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas 'd; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is the Earth, of which we shall soon speak at full length. At present I shall... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led COS The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose ; since God hath... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; Silence was picas d. Now giow'd the firmament O With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort, th" hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, 3.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She. all night long. her am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silrer mantle threw. . . Wh.'ti Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' boor Of night, and all things... | |
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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... 
