 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long, her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd.' Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rose brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, Cnveil'd her... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 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 —...brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j'... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: its branches here; [pear. Where edg'd with gold its...customs meet and well ! Ere this was banish'd fro at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...although to rest Is almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : 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... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...of Hesperus, or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...brightest : 'till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus,...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.—... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...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.... | |
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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... 
