| Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 160 páginas
...morn, in russet mantle clad. Walks o'er the dews of yon high eastern hill.' Arid this likewise : ' ' Now came still evening on, and twilight gray • Had in her sober livery all things clad.' • " Just think of the gradual change that takes place in the appearance of yonder hills as evening... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...description of evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. 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; •... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there, 595 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 páginas
...description of evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. 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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 páginas
...not, so scrupulous was he in declaring for any system of philosophy. 598. Now came still evening on, Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, &c.] This is the first evening in the poem ; for the action of the preceding books lying out of the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...Mam and Eve, retiring to r«*f. Now came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry 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 am'rous descant sung : Silence... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 páginas
...majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these 'o their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. Z. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fairconsort,... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 páginas
...called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery...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... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 318 páginas
...him there, 595 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 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 páginas
...Adam and Eve, retiring to rest, 1 Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung :... | |
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