 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 descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1411849Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : , Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded- majesty,. at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 pages
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 212 pages
...Edogue to Mr. Johnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent quceu unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. PAR. LOST, BOOK... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | 1840 - 876 pages
...give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII.... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Pising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy to be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
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