 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...  Littell's Living Age - 139. oldal1849Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 oldal
...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 oldal
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; its glittering skirts apOh wnssail days! O customs...well ! Ere this was banish'd from its lofty sphere : unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 oldal
...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 in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 oldal
...pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry nost, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvtil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 oldal
...given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 oldal
...sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest;...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, , Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 314 oldal
...long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 oldal
...long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length,. Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 406 oldal
...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 oldal
...long her amorous deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; 8 elouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
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