| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " 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... | |
| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Q Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY TRE SAME. A ow came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk.... | |
| Sir John Carr - Denmark - 1806 - 342 pages
...oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now comfe stHl evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beasi and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...him there Arraying with reflected purple' and gold 596 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 accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " 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... | |
| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. 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,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...left him there 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 accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk,... | |
| Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...the English poet not only personixes, but employs in a very becoming office : Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Every body will observe a little blemish, in this fine couplet. He should not have used the epithet... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...howgreat! IX.— Ev ening in Paradise described: Adam and Eve'» Cc/n-versation and Evening Wars/lift.— NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Siltnce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk,... | |
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