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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... "
Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Page 263
by Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1881
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pages
...language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk • With living saphirs." now glowed the firmament Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pages
...Milton: " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Q Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk With living saphirs." —now glowed the firmament Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...The pret. and part. pass, ot liing. SLUNK. The pret. and part. pass, of slink. Silence accompany 'd ; for beast, and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nosts, Were slunk. Milton. To SLUK. -ja [sloorig, Dutch, lusty ; iloore, a slut.] i. To sully , to...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1806 - 342 pages
...evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beasi and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk- — — . now glowed the firmament With living saphirs." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all tilings clad : Silence accompanied ; for bea*t 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...
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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of ..., Volume 27

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied; for beast and...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk now glowed the firmament With living saphires." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and...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:...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had iu her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast...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...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, .She all night long her amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...men, and guide the state." weifsnxjtt, SECTION V. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE, RETIRING TO HEST" Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her am'rous descant sung : ,...
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