 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...  Paradise Lost: A Poem - Sida 109efter John Milton - 1833 - 351 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sidor
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; . Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descaot sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With livid saphires : Hesperus, that led... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 sidor
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk • With living saphirs." now glowed the firmament Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sidor
...flight to th' East, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple' and gold 596 The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening...things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 sidor
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk now glowed the firmament With living saphires." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 sidor
...the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...all night long her amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire; Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 sidor
...ADAM and EVE, retiring to rest. Now came still ev'ning on, 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 sidor
...guide the state." WHITFHEAIS. SECTION V. YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 sidor
...poetry, I know not one superior, for pleasing imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sidor
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 sidor
...of those exquisitely beautiful Hues of our great poet: Now came stHl evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
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