 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 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',...light' , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw*. When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consort', th' hour Of night', and all things nowretir'd to rest', Mind... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. — Milton. GAY. WHO RIGHTLY CALLED. Whom call we gay] That honour has been long The boast of mere... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pages
...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 : Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil 'a her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle tnrew. t When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...dead, and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. All but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long...unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend :... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus is of a white colour, and is so strong that she sometimes, it is said, casts... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pages
...these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous descant sung . Silence was pleas'd . Now glow'd the...Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...SECTION V. i their nests, 11 ^~i ~i~ """ '•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th? hous Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; bilence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament . With living...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, Mind... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...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,... | |
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Now came still Evening on, and 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... 
