 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 1391849Full view - About this book
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " 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." MOTHER. The light of Venus... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 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... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 518 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,...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... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — 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. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV.... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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. Si , comme tu le dis , quelque... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...lips.' 602 all but] Not all. Owls. Bubones. Bentl. MS. With living saphirs ; Hesperus that led 605 The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unvail'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : fair... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. I can recollect only one description that is worthy td be mentioned after this. It is of a fine moonlight... | |
 | Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy - 1834 - 172 pages
...the example cited the Grammatical Subject is "peaches." Apply this distinction to another example : u The moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTOM. The Subject is Simple, for it denotes but a single thing, " the moon." It is Complex, for it... | |
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