 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery alt things clad. 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 her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...lVi>r.*ffip. — MILTON, NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clid. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...Milton : - • Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad 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 pleas'd;... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...subject ; the first describes the approach of evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : 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. When Eve passed the... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...throne attend. 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, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...retiring to rest: Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesta Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...on, and twiligh't grayHad in her sober liv'ry all tilings clad. Silence accompanied ; forecast und bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. •* She all night long heram'rous descant sung : *•« Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...sense; And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate To govern men and guide the state." WHITEHEAD, SECTION V. 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 he* am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd.... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...after seven. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey 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 am'rous descant sung ; Silence was pleased.... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...Milton. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey 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 pleas'd.'... | |
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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... 
