 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...all 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,...dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. ADAM. Fair coesort ! th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...long her am'rous descant sung : , Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...the firmament With livid saphires : Hcspcru?, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moou Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Faic Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest Mind us of like repose, since God... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale. She all. night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, the hour Of eight, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ;• since God hath set Labour and... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 222 pages
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An ebon wand, How his lov'd sister guides * Her silver car, Sweet wanderer!... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...all 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 :...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Uising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Gf night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle...night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of'lite-repose; since God hath set ' Labour and rest, as day and night to mea Successive; and the timely... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...after s \ conjunction they are turned to the ivrtt. "How beautifully is the moon described by JMilton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bookiv. line 606. Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that the moon's orbit is elliptical... | |
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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... 
