 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 Seiten
...Cloud: Now, o'er the pure Cerulean, rides sublime. Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured... | |
 | 1909 - 502 Seiten
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw; When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 Seiten
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 Seiten
...closing lines is Milton. First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1991 - 356 Seiten
...down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen,...light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | Edward Kimber - 1998 - 146 Seiten
...Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. 36. By the Bull-Frogs, Lizards, Grasshoppers, Marsh Frogs, &c. &c. &c. (Kimber's note) 37. Other wild... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 Seiten
...Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long...Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 Seiten
...kept shining and bright in my eyes, and the stars going round in my head." John Milton's "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" and "The quality of mercy is... | |
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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... 
