 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. 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 pleas'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. 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 pleas'd.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; nor glimpse divine! all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd:... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...still evening on, and twilight grey 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. Ibid. Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full-orb'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry 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 am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...greete " The dawning day, &c." DUNSTER. Ver. 282. from his grassy couch] So, in Par. Lost, B. iv. 600. " for beast and bird, " • They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, " Were slunk." THYER. Milton might perhaps remember Lucretius's expression, " Herba cubile praebebat," lib. v. TODD.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, alj night long, her am'rous descant sung : • Silence... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pages
...called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton Now came stili 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... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...Christian religion, to behave ourselves as we ought to do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. EVENING. 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... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...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 descant sung ; Silence was pleased... | |
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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... 
