 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 pages
...came 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 ifcst, Were slunk: all save the tuneful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 6OO They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
 | English Association - 1911 - 192 pages
...generalizations always enfeeble description in poetry, how are we to explain the effect of this passage ? 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... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pages
...sober gray. Iliad, xxiv. 427-8. And twilight gray her ev'ning shade extends. Odyssey, iii. 422. Nov> came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. PL iv. 508-0. There stands a rock, high eminent and steep. Odyssey, iii. 374. Amid them stood the Tree... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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 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... | |
 | Stuart Feder - 1992 - 444 pages
...Milton's Paradise Lost, contrasts curiously with the homespun sentimentality of the boy Charlie Ivés: Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12... | |
 | Edward Kimber - 1998 - 146 pages
...surprize a Stranger much. (Kimber's note) 35. Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 598-609: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but... | |
 | Philip Lambert - 1997 - 332 pages
...pleasing Silence? Figure 3.3 Text comparison for "Evening" Milton: [Ivés: Now came still Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk, all... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 308 pages
...things ciaf: the lines comes from Book IV, 11. 598-9, of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The poem reads: Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these... | |
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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... 
