 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...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 :—... | |
 | English Association - 1911 - 192 pages
...too it is not only present when Milton puts on all his multicoloured robes of splendour : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ; but also, when he is perhaps... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pages
...Cloud: Now, o'er the pure Cerulean, rides sublime. Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust Turns from its bottom the discoloured... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...closing lines is Milton. First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 pages
...kept shining and bright in my eyes, and the stars going round in my head." John Milton's "Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that...rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, and o'er the dark her silver mantle threw" and "The quality of mercy is... | |
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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... 
