 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 396 Seiten
...of Milton : ' Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from... | |
 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 Seiten
...clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their neits, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...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... | |
 | 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...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing sapphires is a highly ingenious substitution ! XIV. Adam and Eve's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 Seiten
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: 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. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1924 - 734 Seiten
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. Each... | |
 | Edward Kimber - 1998 - 146 Seiten
...things clad; 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 her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 Seiten
...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 Seiten
...things clad; 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 her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The starry Host, rode... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 Seiten
...clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The... | |
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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... 
