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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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Flowers and their associations

Anne Pratt - 1840 - 448 pages
...Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The stirry host, rode brightest; till the moon Rising in clouded...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton. THE evening primrose (GEnothera bidnnis) is so common a flower, as to need no description....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 48

1840 - 1522 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. cexcvn. VOL. XLVIII....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 48

1840 - 880 pages
...moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The »tarry 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." SO. CCSCVII. VOL. XLVIII....
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The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 pages
...her ara'rous descant sung • "ilcnce was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament A'ilh living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded mnjesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, AIH! o'er the dark her silver mantle...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was plcas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest;...in clouded majesty, at length, ., Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair...
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Studies Concerning the Origin of "Paradise Lost.", Volume 5, Issue 6

Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing sapphires is a highly ingenious substitution ! XIV. Adam and Eve's...
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Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse

William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...particular moment in Paradise Lost: 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. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired...
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How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa

Henry Morton Stanley - 2002 - 660 pages
...silent plains, and the moonbeans were almost obscured, and at such times our position seemed awful— Till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her pecrlewi light^ And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bravely toiled the men, without murmur,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair consort, the hour 610...
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