 | 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...light, And o-er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is the Earth, of which we shall soon speak at full length. At present I shall... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 trang
...nightingale. •* She all night long heram'rous descant sung : *•« Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament *« With living sapphires : Hesperus,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length,. Apparent queen unveiVti'her peerless light, And o'er the dsrk her-silver mantle threw. . When Adantthus to Eve : "... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 trang
...and all was one grave and majestic circle of shadow, -Rising in clouded majesty, at length A parent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When the long protracted shades the mountains cast on the bosom of the lake, showed the vastness of those... | |
 | 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...threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair Consort! the' Of night, and all things now retired to rest, [hour Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labor... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 trang
...She all oight long; her aii'roua descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament Wnli living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now rrtir-d to rest, Mind us ut like repose; since God hath set Labonr... | |
 | 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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | 1847 - 648 trang
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus first that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTON. The MOON rises on the 1st at half-past seven in the evening, and on the 3d at half-past nine... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 trang
...the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pteas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that...starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, AppM<tt»t'<iueen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 trang
...pleas'd.' Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rose brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, Cnveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. When Adam, first of men, thus... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence... 
