| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk. all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Twilight gray 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...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus, that led 605 The... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...divine Milton : " 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 now glowed the firmament With living saphires." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...CRABBE. Moon Light. 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...nightingale, .She all night long her amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire; Hesperus, that... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...throne attend. 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...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...HECITATIVE. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had, in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied : for beast, and bird, They to...but the wakeful nightingale! She all night long her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy conch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was plcas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hcspcru?, that led The... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...men, and guide the state." weifsnxjtt, SECTION V. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE, RETIRING TO HEST" Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her am'rous descant sung : ,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...all things dad. Silence accompanied : for beast, and bird, They to their grassy couch, Ihese to Iheir 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 firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...retiring to rest* Now came still evening.on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale. She all. night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The... | |
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