 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 - Seite 6von Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 80 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 Seiten
...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 - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1809 - 890 Seiten
...night. When all the starry train emblaze the sphere. POPE. So Milton, in his description of the evening. -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest. Par. Lost, b. iv. lin. 604—6. 'Efijxcu, either from sYr/xa perf. of I'rij^i to . stand, or from Heb.... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 Seiten
...amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent {{Ween uriveiFd hef'pee'rless light And o'er the dstrk' her silver marifle threw. MILTON, O» Milton.... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - 1810 - 314 Seiten
...spontaneous action to things inanimate, the following description is a beautiful example: * See Chap. 2. The moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, Aud o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. — PL 4. 606. • Here it is obvious that the words " majesty"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 Seiten
...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 :...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 212 Seiten
...Edogue to Mr. Johnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent quceu unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. PAR. LOST, BOOK... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 Seiten
...all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 Seiten
...long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living Saphircs : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort,,... | |
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