 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
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. EVENING. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 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,... | |
 | 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 her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * 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 nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...of the approach of evening. " 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." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 Thejt4ftJihJeJ^grassj_c,o•up•h!-t}iCSe"tJTIieir nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descaht aung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...gold The clouds, that 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 bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...the variety of numbers, than that of Milton : " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had m 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... | |
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