 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey 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...  The Poetry of Life - Page 146by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...there Arraying with reflected purple' and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now ca.ue 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...him there 595 Arraying witk reflected purple' 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. A DESCRIPTION of NIGHT. (MILTON.) Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all tilings clad : Silence accompanied ; for bea*t and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...him there 595 Arraying with reflected purple' 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 anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...delightful calm of nature, and felt the force of those exquisitely beautiful lines of our great poet: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, ,Wefe-slunk,-all... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...of nature, and felt the force of those exquisitely beautiful Hues of our great poet: Now came stHl evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...there, 595 Arrayiug with reflected purple1 and gold The clouds that on life western throne attend. Xow came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things' Clad ; Silence accoriipanied : for beast and bird, (TOO They to their grassy couch, these to their nesls,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1821 - 494 pages
...фингфоро; • • • <¡iiáxo'j<r' ätrrpx. ' .,'.,.. ., - ч- "' • • '-.. • Milton's Par. Lostjiv. Now came still Evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; ". ' They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...his thoughts, when he wrote the description of the evening in his fourth book of Paradise Lost : " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey " Had in her sober livery all things clad — ." MALONE. i As those two MOURNING eyes become thy face :] The old copy has — morning. The context,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...him there, SQ5 Arraying with reflected purple' 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 hird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were... | |
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