 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd*. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus',...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* :... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 Seiten
...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 pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 Seiten
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " 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." MOTHER. The light of Venus... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 Seiten
...'•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night 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, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 Seiten
...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 her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...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... | |
 | 1829 - 494 Seiten
...these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful Nightingale ; She...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 Seiten
...wakeful nightingale. She all night 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, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...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...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
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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... 
