 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 trang
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd die to lie bid ; sea he had scarch'd, and land, From Eden...river Ob ; Downward as far antarctic; and in length unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. " Fair... | |
 | 492 trang
...kind is afforded to the saving poor man by the establishment of SAVINGS' BANKS. A MOONLIGHT SCENE. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THERE are certain great and... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - 1820 - 538 trang
...wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 trang
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: Now glow'd 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. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 350 trang
...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,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is... | |
 | 1821 - 494 trang
...all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With livid Sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode...Moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Virg. .Жп. iv. 522. Nox erat,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 trang
...am'rous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperas, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam, thus to Eve : "... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 trang
...; Silence was pleas-d : now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The stair; host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil-d her peerless light, And o-er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 trang
...wakeful nightingale : She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glow'd 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. When Adam thus to Eve : "... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 trang
...the wakeful nightingale. She all night long he* am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd 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. 2. When Adam thus to Eve: "... | |
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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 descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now... 
