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" 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 141
1849
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Oeuvres complètes de m. le vicomte de Chateaubriand: Le Paradis Perdu de Milton

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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, unyeil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve :—...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1837 - 358 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led Tho starry host, 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 BO that water there would be...
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Home Education

Isaac Taylor - 1838 - 344 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung ; Silencft was pleased : now glowed the firmament With livid sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and cherish poetic tastes, a continuous reading,...
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The Paradise Lost

1838 - 586 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...
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Sketches of Married Life

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen - 1838 - 314 pages
...the stars, one after another, seemed to open their bright eyes upon the quiet waters, and " The moon at length, apparent queen, Unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark Her silver mantle threw." All rebellious feelings were rebuked in Amy's heart, and a holy trust and a quiet submission had taken...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs ; Hesperus that led 605 The starry host 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. When Adam thus to Eve : fair...
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Home Education

Isaac Taylor - 1838 - 396 pages
...rode brightest till the moort, Ji '' "(I 'W''' Rising in clouded majesty, at length, ,'v»,i) )y"!:io Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the intention is only, and in general, to awaken and cherish poetic tastes, a continuous reading,...
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Conversations on natural philosophy, by the author of Conversations on chemistry

Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs : Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising ia clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, • And o'er the dark her...
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The New-York Review, Volume 5

1839 - 530 pages
...disorder and violence, not one drop of blood was shed in civil war, and the glorious commonwealth, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light. When we come to speak of the union of races out of which the Roman people sprang, we shall have a better...
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A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton School

Aaron Arrowsmith - 1839 - 880 pages
...in lu r sober livery all tilings clad ; — — — now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising iu clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, uaveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver...
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