 | 1847 - 648 pages
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus first that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MILTON. The MOON rises on the 1st at half-past seven in the evening, and on the 3d at half-past nine... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 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...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent qnecn, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve.... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 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,...length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, A ml o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair Consort, the hour Of night,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 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 —...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...these to their nesta Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 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...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...things clad, •' > ' She all night long her am'roiss descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now g'tow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these 'o their nests Were slunk;... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000... | |
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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... 
