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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,... "
The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson - Page 230
by John Milton - 1807
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now ca.ue still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; . Silence...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descaot sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch,...but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk • With living saphirs." now glowed the...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY TRE SAME. A ow came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk. all hut the wakeful nightingale...
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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of ..., Volume 27

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk now glowed the firmament With living saphires."...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...volubil earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...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...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy conch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was plcas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hcspcru?, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...guide the state." WHITFHEAIS. SECTION V. YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She...
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