| Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pagini
...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...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 :... | |
| First steps - 1828 - 456 pagini
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pagini
...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 d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 pagini
...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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th? hous Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pagini
...all but the wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; bilence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament . With living sapphires :...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... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 pagini
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagini
...couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : ' Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pagini
...now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Lahour and rest, as day and night to men Successive ; and the timely... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pagini
...Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV. 598. * Niaovvurloif iroS' upaif, Xrpc^erai or' "Aprroc »/<*') Kard x('Pa... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pagini
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode bfigllWSt, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour fOf night, and all things now retired to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour... | |
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