 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...  The Paradise Lost of Milton - Page 1361827 - 24 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pages
...twilight gray V, Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; fur beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires:... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 160 pages
...morn, in russet mantle clad. Walks o'er the dews of yon high eastern hill.' Arid this likewise : ' ' Now came still evening on, and twilight gray • Had in her sober livery all things clad.' • " Just think of the gradual change that takes place in the appearance of yonder hills as evening... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...effectual beams Not dissimilar is the justly admired description of evening coming on, Par. Lost, iv. 598. Now came still Evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Where see the notes on Milton's frequent notice of the twilight gray. The Roman poets give night a... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...not, so scrupulous was he in declaring for any system of philosophy. 598. Now came still evening on, Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, &c.] This is the first evening in the poem ; for the action of the preceding books lying out of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there, 595 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...Mam and Eve, retiring to r«*f. Now came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were sunk, all but the 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 ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...sober livery all things elad ; Silenee aeeompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy eoueh, 0 deseant sung ; Silenee was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...or the evening star. Milton has given us a fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...The starry host, rode brightest : 'till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light ; And o'er the dark... | |
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