| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...Adam and Eve's Conversation and Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had itt her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1823 - 194 páginas
...water, and found the carriage waiting for us. We left Mr. • and his interesting family just as " — came still evening on, And twilight gray had in her sober livery All things clad." My companions complained that they could not see the scenery, but I, who 151 am fond of contrast, discovered... | |
| 1832 - 698 páginas
...evening on ; — and twilight gray Has in her sober livery ;ill things clad : Silence accompanies; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sings : Silence... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1824 - 370 páginas
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton: Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...description of evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Adam, iv. 639. With thee converging I forget all time, &c. Amongst... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 páginas
...description of evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Ail ui ii, iv. 639. With thee conversing I forget all time, &c. Amongst... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 páginas
...remain ia Varadlse J---19. How wore they prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had,...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased.... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. Ibid. Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full-orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 páginas
...twilight gray V, Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; fur beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires:... | |
| Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 160 páginas
...morn, in russet mantle clad. Walks o'er the dews of yon high eastern hill.' Arid this likewise : ' ' Now came still evening on, and twilight gray • Had in her sober livery all things clad.' • " Just think of the gradual change that takes place in the appearance of yonder hills as evening... | |
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