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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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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1829 - 420 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? hous Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; bilence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament . With living...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th" hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : ' Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...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. Now glow'd the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2'. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest,...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Lahour and rest, as day and night to men...
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A compendium of ancient and modern geography

Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Par. Lott, Book IV. 598. * Niaovvurloif iroS' upaif, Xrpc^erai or' "Aprroc »/<*') Kard x('Pa...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode bfigllWSt, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length...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...
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Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...éclatante , Nul ici n'est venu des hautes régions. Mais , malgré nos remparts , malgré nos légions , On purpose, hard thou know'st it to exclude Spiritual...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Si , comme tu le dis , quelque autre créature D'un ordre different et d'une autre nature Osa franchir...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers

Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pages
...all but tlie wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver-mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now...
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