 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...  On the Structure of English Verse - Page 141by Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — 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. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV.... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...starry host, rode bfigllWSt, 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. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour fOf night, and all things now retired to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing sapphires is a highly ingenious substitution ! XIV. Adam and Eve's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: 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. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired... | |
 | Raphael - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Raphael - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 2002 - 660 pages
...silent plains, and the moonbeans were almost obscured, and at such times our position seemed awful— Till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her pecrlewi light^ And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bravely toiled the men, without murmur,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,0 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair consort, the hour 610... | |
 | Linda Haddad - 2007 - 100 pages
...the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes, and the stars going round in my head." John Milton's "Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus,...light, and o'er the dark her silver mantle threw" and "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place... | |
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