 | 1829 - 494 Seiten
...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 Seiten
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 222 Seiten
...appearance Southennan softly cried, " Hush !" and made a signal for her to be silent. CHAPTER XLVI. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad." MILTON. THE twilight was almost faded when Auchenbrae escaped in the habiliments of Johnnie Gaff. As... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 Seiten
...him there, 59o Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 Thejt4ftJihJeJ^grassj_c,o•up•h!-t}iCSe"tJTIieir nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 Seiten
...and Twilight gray Had in her soher livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 Seiten
...— WHITEHEAD. SECTION V. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to reit. NOW came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all..." £ " They to their grassy couch, these to their i Were sunk ; all but tlie wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 Seiten
...him there, sge Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening, on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk,... | |
 | 1842 - 692 Seiten
...means of outwitting them." With these words, they bent their steps towards the castle. CHAPTER V. " Now came still evening on ; and twilight gray, Had in her sober livery all things clad." Milton. WE left de Courcy and his friend Sir Edward de Clifford, conversing at the " Broken Cross,"... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 Seiten
...rendered the governor more secure than he ought to have been, considering its importance. (Restrictive.) Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. Milton. (Exceptive.) Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends, Unless some dull and favourable... | |
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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... 
