 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 Seiten
...^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, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er... | |
 | Robert Hutchinson Rose - 1810 - 208 Seiten
...shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hum Hath rung night's yawning peal. Casts her light mantled] • The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Par. Lost. This is finely in opposition to SHAKSPEARE'S " blanket of the dark," which the lady is unwilling... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 Seiten
...firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Pising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind... | |
 | 1825 - 362 Seiten
...sat down under the moat to res: himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which, " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, [threw, O'er the d&rk heaven her silver mantle And in her pale dominion checked the night." ' Presently... | |
 | 1827 - 294 Seiten
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us... | |
 | 1833 - 444 Seiten
...now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy td be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy - 1834 - 172 Seiten
...the example cited the Grammatical Subject is "peaches." Apply this distinction to another example : u The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTOM. The Subject is Simple, for it denotes but a single thing, " the moon." It is Complex, for it... | |
 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 Seiten
...Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." . Milton certainly is the noblest and greatest poet that any age or country has ever produced. I do... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded mnjosty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. " Fair consort, th« hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind... | |
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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 glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... 
