 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...the situation itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: 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... | |
 | 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...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 One evening... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. Each... | |
 | 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...clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long... | |
 | 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 but the wakeful... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The... | |
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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... 
