 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 894 pages
...evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, Tn. y to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all oiglit long her amorous descant sung. When EVP passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...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 slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...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 lint.I lie wakeful nightingale; sKe. all night lonj£her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 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 glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all dungs clad ; rom the town Buried in smoke, and sleep, and noisome damps, Oft let me wander o'er the dew Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery alt things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast 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... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...lVi>r.*ffip. — MILTON, NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clid. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...subject ; the first describes the approach of evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Eve passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...Milton : - • Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad 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 saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...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,...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led G0S... | |
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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... 
