 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; rom those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 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 nesto , \Verc slunk , all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 302 pages
...witnessed, affords greater pleasure than we found in beholding them ; but in the dead of night when beast and bird, " They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk;" and man, the lord of all, has forgotten his cares in sleep — when silence assumes her... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...[From the same.} Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sang ; Silence was plcas'd... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...Some verses are divided by a double cesural pause of shorter duration than that of the common caesura. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, They*...grassy couch, | these* | to their nests Were slunk, [ all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things claa; Silence accompany'd ; 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...or comparable to this to be found among all the treasures of ancient or modern poetry : " Jfewton. 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 descant1 sung. Silence was pleased... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 328 pages
...Jft EVENING. 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 descant sung; Silence was pleased... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1846 - 420 pages
...Milton. •" Now came still evening on ; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...grassy couch, — these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; — She, all night long, her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased.... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 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, 600 Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
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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... 
