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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... "
The Republic - Page 125
1851
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...livid saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brighest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 611 Mind...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 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 her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the wakeful nightingale; She all night long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led . The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon Rising in elouded majesty, ai lengths Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605; 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 her silver mantle threw. WHEN Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest 6 1 1 Mind...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 3

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 652 pages
...grave and majestic circle of Skiddaw, " till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length A potent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" — when the long-protracted shades the mountains cast on the bosom of the lake, showed the vastness...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 3

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1802 - 654 pages
...grave and majestic circle of Skiddaw, " till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length A potent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" — when the long-protracted shades the mountains cast on the bosom of the lake, showed the vastness...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ...

Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...moon-light scenery in Milton. It is never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : 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 Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouHed majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver...
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The heirs of Villeroy

Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...industry, and social intercourse. Anna fixed her mild blue eyes on the moon, which " Rising, in clouded majesty, at length, " Apparent queen, unveil'd her...light, " And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ;" and lifted up her gentle soul in admiration and praise of the Divine Author of the creation's great...
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