 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...firmament With living SHpphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rismg in clouded majesty, at length, ' Apparent queen unveil'd...silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : Fair consorf, th' hour Of night, Rtid all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glowM the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Of night, and all -things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...the skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." No. CCXCVII. voL. XLVIII. In other moods the poet or the lover sees in her pale loveliness, not the... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased : now glow'd the...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that...clouded majesty at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. From Vermanton we proceeded by Maison... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus lh.at led The starry host rodeybrightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. FronvVermanton we proceeded by Maison Neuve -> • to Dijon. At Maison Neuve we^dined, or rather tried... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,- till the Moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd..."Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set .Labour and rest, as day and night, to... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1819 - 370 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." From Vermanton we proceeded by Maison Neu vc to Dijon. At Maison Neuve we dined, or rather 'tried to... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 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,...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repo'e ; since God hath set... | |
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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... 
