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" 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... "
Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 129
by William Hayley - 1810
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48

1840 - 876 pages
...the skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII. In other moods the poet or the lover sees in her pale loveliness, not the...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless...to Eve : " Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all thmgs now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose, since; God hath set Labour and rest, as day and...
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Letters during a tour through ... France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany and ...

Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that...clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. From Vermanton we proceeded by Maison...
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Letters, During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland ...

Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pages
...now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus lh.at led The starry host rodeybrightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. FronvVermanton we proceeded by Maison Neuve -> • to Dijon. At Maison Neuve we^dined, or rather tried...
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Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland ...

Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." From Vermanton we proceeded by Maison Neu vc to Dijon. At Maison Neuve we dined, or rather 'tried to...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...accompanied ; for beast and bird,. * t They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repo'e ; since God hath set...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...clouded majesty at length. Apparent queen unveil'd her peertess light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th'...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...sunk all but the wakeful nightingale ; S?he all night long her amorous:descant sung : xi Silence wns pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires...length, ' Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, Ami o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thns to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night,...
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The Englishman's fire-side

492 pages
...kind is afforded to the saving poor man by the establishment of SAVINGS' BANKS. A MOONLIGHT SCENE. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THERE are certain great and magnificent objects in the creation, the contemplation of which has a tendency...
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