 ... 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 pleased: now...  The advanced reader - Page 399by Scottish school-book assoc - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil 'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'dher peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve :— "... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1837 - 358 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led Tho starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw BO that water there would be... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Domestic education - 1838 - 344 pages
...descant sung ; Silencft was pleased : now glowed the firmament With livid sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest till the moon, Rising...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and cherish poetic tastes, a continuous reading, without... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising...When Adam thus to Eve : — " Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing sapphires is a highly ingenious substitution ! XIV. Adam and Eve's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...descant sung: Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - Social Science - 2002 - 660 pages
...silent plains, and the moonbeans were almost obscured, and at such times our position seemed awful— Till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her pecrlewi light^ And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bravely toiled the men, without murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair consort, the hour 610... | |
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