 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...hare us'd.. SECTION III. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest* Now came still evening.on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, the hour Of eight, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...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-...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 páginas
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An ebon wand, How his lov'd sister guides * Her silver car, Sweet wanderer!... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 páginas
...Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Gf night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 páginas
...after s \ conjunction they are turned to the ivrtt. "How beautifully is the moon described by JMilton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bookiv. line 606. Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that the moon's orbit is elliptical... | |
 | 1840 - 876 páginas
...the skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII. In other moods the poet or the lover sees in her pale loveliness, not the... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glowM the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Of night, and all -things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 páginas
...wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that...clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. From Vermanton we proceeded by Maison... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 páginas
...now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus lh.at led The starry host rodeybrightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. FronvVermanton we proceeded by Maison Neuve -> • to Dijon. At Maison Neuve we^dined, or rather tried... | |
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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... 
