| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...long he* am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament ' With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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... | |
| 1847 - 648 páginas
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus first that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTON. The MOON rises on the 1st at half-past seven in the evening, and on the 3d at half-past nine... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 páginas
...starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, AppM<tt»t'<iueen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. There is but one description worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonshine night, by... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless 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 rettr'd to rest, Mind us... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1824 - 370 páginas
...the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The Planet next to Venus is the Earth, of which we shall soon speak at full length. At present I shall... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; its glittering skirts apOh wnssail days! O customs...well ! Ere this was banish'd from its lofty sphere : When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 páginas
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...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 611 Mind... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 páginas
...firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd...light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. 9. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, th' houc Of night, acd all thing* now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
| George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 páginas
...sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest;...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
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