| John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark tier silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. « Fair consort, the' hour Of night, and all things... | |
| 1833 - 444 pages
...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. I can recollect only one description... | |
| Notes - 1834 - 264 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. v. 3, 4. See p. 2. NOTES. v. 5, 6. On these two verses, with that preceding, St. Paul has left... | |
| Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 396 pages
...' Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from our encampment, hovering over the trees, far beneath us to the westward... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to JEve : ' Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose... | |
| Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 388 pages
..." Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed 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." We observed the smoke from... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pages
...couch, these to their nes^, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...mantle threw. $ When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' houi Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of Kite repose ; since God hath set... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...thee welcome still. 2GG She all night long her amorous descant sung, Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Pur. Lost, iv. 598. 15 Now, with all due admiration of the whole sex, says that excellent good man... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...thee welcome still. 268 She all night long her amorous descant sung, Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Par. Lest, iv. 598. 15 Now, with all due admiration of the whole sex, says that excellent good man... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...all but the 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, unveil'dher peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve :— "... | |
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