 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. Section 111. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE RETIRING TO REST. Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...accompanied ; for beast and bird. Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk: all hut the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous...led The starry host; rode brightest, 'till the moon Kisiog in cloudless majesty, at length Apparent qneeu unveiPd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas-d : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The stair; host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton : - • Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 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...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...subject ; the first describes the approach of evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Eve passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...sense, and takes the ravish'd soul. EVENING. Milton. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : — Silence...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... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...and variety of numbers, than that of Milton : — Now eatng still evening on, and twilight gray Had m her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied...all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pteas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...past four, and sets at seventeen minutes after seven. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence...but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus... | |
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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... 
