 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...things clad ; * This mark denotes the csesural pause. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, • They* | to their grassy couch, | these* | to their...all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long I her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...dow'r, th' adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. [Evening in Paradae.] [From the ьате.] comfort from his looks. A largess universal, like the sun, Hi« liberal eye doth give to every They to their grassy couch, these to their nest«, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 6OO They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird — They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...gathered round us by thy look of rest ; . Thou bring'st the child, too, to the mother's breast. BTROJT 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there, 695 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beasts and birds, Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests "Were...all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 pages
...drowsy night," " musing midnight," &c. " O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth." — Shakspeare. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy coach, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 pages
...throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Hud in her sober livery ull things clnd : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 600 They...these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightmgale ; She nil night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd tht V-imainent... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pages
...horizon. Such a night had the blind poet in his mind's eye when he composed those beautiful lines : — " 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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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,... 
