 | Notes - 1834 - 264 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. v. 3, 4. See p. 2. NOTES. v. 5, 6. On these two verses, with that preceding, St. Paul has left... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 396 pages
...' Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from our encampment, hovering over the trees, far beneath us to the westward... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 388 pages
..." Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." We observed the smoke from... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...solemn nightingale Ceased warhling, hut all night tuned her soft lays.' Virgil G. iv. 514. ' at ilia She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent... | |
 | 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
...First of all, the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus...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... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1991 - 356 pages
...down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which — t' Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen,...light. And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising...threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour eio Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labor and... | |
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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... 
