 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pages
...all 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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd*. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus',...threw*. When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consort', th' hour Of night', and all things nowretir'd to rest', Mind us of like repose* ; since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...state." WHITKHEAD. SECTION V. Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires —...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased Were they permitted to remain in Paradise... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. — Milton. GAY. WHO RIGHTLY CALLED. Whom call we gay] That honour has been long The boast of mere... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle...Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night to men... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pages
...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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil 'a her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle tnrew. t When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...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...unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend :... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pages
...these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous descant sung . Silence was pleas'd . Now glow'd the...Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus is of a white colour, and is so strong that she sometimes, it is said, casts... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
