 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pagini
...read suecess in every flashing eve. HG BELL. Reduce the following from inverted to direct order: — Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. — MILToN. From tent to tent the impaticnt warrior flics. — DARwIN. Not a drum was heard, not a... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pagini
...him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; — all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pagini
...excell'd by manly grace, And wisdom, which alono is truly fair. Parma* Lot, IV. ««. EVENINO IN PARADISE. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for be:ist and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pagini
...state With even step, and pensive gait. //. Pers. 31. 14 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day ; 250 Not sumptuously... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pagini
..."Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery 'all things clad." Read thus, "Now came still evening on and twilight gray — had in her sober livery," &c. "And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly." Read, "And dark as winter was the flow... | |
 | L. T. Covell - 1855 - 256 pagini
...thyself, for man is the proper study of mankind ; but presume thou not to scan God. 1NVERSE ORDER. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad." — Milton. NATURAL ORDER. Still evening came on now ; and gray twilight had clad all things in her... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pagini
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866 - 508 pagini
...that kind of imagination which consists in infused animation and undefined incipient impersonation. "Now came still evening on," and "Twilight gray had...sober livery all things clad" " Silence accompanied." . • Shepherd. You say richt, sir — three impersonifications. North. If I could suppose that here... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pagini
...But we cannot leave the Fourth Book without quoting the beautiful lines on the approach of evening. " Now came still evening on, and 'twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Meneo accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagini
...Book iv. Line 506. Imparadised in one another's arms. Paradise Lost— Continued. Book iv. Line 598. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Book iv. Line 639. With thee conversing, I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please... | |
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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. 
