 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 341810Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Now came still evening on, and 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 Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. Ibid. Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...description. 1 have often thought that the weakne** They to their grassy couch, these to their uests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had lame, nor private dares to shine : Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 pages
...prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, 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 sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...sober livery all things elad ; Silenee aeeompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy eoueh, 0 deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...sober liv'ry 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 am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She 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... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - 1826 - 308 pages
...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 pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pages
...star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 pages
...on, and twilight gray SNc.nce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, th'!se to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She. all night long. her am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
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